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I had a moment of synesthetic ecstasy as I watched my favorite pastry tumble down the cobblestone street only to be finally intercepted by a hungry crow I think it was a corneille noire, native to the area.
Jason Silva: The Imaginary Foundation Says "Great Art Expands the Way We See" Jason Silva 2011
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I had a moment of synesthetic ecstasy as I watched my favorite pastry tumble down the cobblestone street only to be finally intercepted by a hungry crow I think it was a corneille noire, native to the area.
Jason Silva: The Imaginary Foundation Says "Great Art Expands the Way We See" Jason Silva 2011
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They are just convinced that ‘conservatism’ means ‘pro-free markets,’ and they see no disjunct between that position and being in favor of the kind of legal moralism that corneille describes as ‘communitarian.’
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And these trunks varied in other ways: the basis might be covered in aimless corneille scribbles—striped with other colors—smooth as silk or stringier than unraveling rope—patched—spotted—scaled—tattered.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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And these trunks varied in other ways: the basis might be covered in aimless corneille scribbles—striped with other colors—smooth as silk or stringier than unraveling rope—patched—spotted—scaled—tattered.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
Gammerstang commented on the word corneille
corneille f (plural corneilles)
crow (the bird)
From a Vulgar Latin root *cornicla, from Late Latin cornīcula, diminutive form of Latin cornīx.
January 12, 2018