This morning, I walked out into the garage and discovered I had not plugged the car in. I was heading to a Texas Senate Panel sponsored by Texas REALTORS® downtown, and had about 140 miles of charge. All is good, I stopped at one of the new superchargers in Austin and got an extra hundred miles of juice in about 30 minutes. Still, no range anxiety, all is good.I set off an alarm at the same house twice today, and almost a third time. It is not my first rodeo, so all there is to do is wait for the cops to show up, and try not to look suspicious. Once again, all seemed to go okay, no issues, and I did not even get patted down. Some days you just can't win.
Esemplastic -- Adjective: shaping or having the power to shape disparate things into a unified whole. "The prison walls of self had closed entirely round him; he was walled completely by the esemplastic power of his imagination." Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, 1929
Did You Know? "Unusual and new-coined words are, doubtless, an evil; but vagueness, confusion, and imperfect conveyance of our thoughts, are a far greater," wrote English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Biographia Literaria in 1817. True to form, in that same work, he assembled esemplastic by melding the Greek phrase es hen, meaning "into one," with plastic to fulfill his need for a word that accurately described the imagination's ability to shape disparate experiences into a unified whole (e.g., the poet's imaginative ability to communicate a variety of images, sensations, emotions, and experiences in the unifying framework of a poem). The verb intensify was another word that Coleridge was compelled to mint while writing Biographia. Coinages found in his other writings include clerisy and psychosomatic, among others.
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