A Vermont listener named Amy is looking for a word to denote a particular kind of light. She has an eye condition that makes her photophobic, which means that ordinary light makes her physically uncomfortable. She wants a word that describes that...
Poet James Merrill once compared the voice of Alice B. Toklas to “a viola at dusk.” This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “A Viola at Dusk” The poet James Merrill once wrote about meeting Alice B. Toklas and he said that he had not...
cow-dust hour n. dusk, twilight, or the end of the working day. Also cow-dust time. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)