Purloined letters (brought to you by the letter "I")

[altivo]

This is how it works: comment on this entry and I will give you a letter. Write ten words beginning with that letter in your journal, including an explanation of what the word means to you and why, and then pass out letters to those who want to play along.

I got the letter "I" from dakhun:

Idiosyncratic

- What I am, at least in the eyes of most people.

Imbecilic, Idiotic, and Irritating

- The Bush administration, and especially the freedom trampling mob psychology of so-called "Homeland Security."

Insecure

- The state of our security in the hands of the above-mentioned morons.

Illiad

- The roots of Western literature, essential reading for any educated person.

Ivy on an Isolated tower of Ivory

- Symbolizes academia, the estate to which I properly belong and which is so much maligned in America today.

Illumination

- The sun of course, of which we are seeing a great deal more lately; but also an enhancement to manuscripts and printing that has always fascinated me.

I suppose it might be cheating to combine several words into a single definition, but being Improper, Irreverent, Intractable, and sometimes Injudicious can be fun. And besides, I'm huggy.

Comments

[hgryphon.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Letters! Like Alphabits cereal!

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Do they still make that? Maybe alphabet soup instead.

I could be cruel and give you X but I won't. I thought of E but that's too Easy, so you get J.

Imperator

[goldenstallion.livejournal.com]

You forgot Imperator.

Impetious, impulsive, impossible, independent, imperial, irrepressable, idealistic, illogical and impish.

*nuzzles his Rider*

Imp

Re: Imperator

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Hardly forgotten, I was just writing in a different world than that one we share.

*neckhugs the best stallion possible in all worlds*

Re: Imperator

[goldenstallion.livejournal.com]

Aboard my broad back you can soar any time my good friend and Rider whom I trust completely.

Come, let us fly and see where we might fit into this wonderful world we call life. Let us discover not only places of amazing discovery but also our selves.

My back is yours, my hardpumping wings commanded. I fell and then I realized I had actually soared. What wonders felt, seen and dealt.

Imperator

Re: Imperator

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Actually you can fly me right to our lake where we could snuggle all night in our soft cushiony bed and watch the stars and moons go by while the night birds sing. :)

[calydor.livejournal.com]

This has the potential to be interesting. Letter me.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

You're a Dane so I'll give you D. ;p

[songcoyote.livejournal.com]

Let's lay literary letters, 'ltivo!

Light land laughter,
LongCoyote

[altivo.livejournal.com]

LongCoyote huh? Well I guess I won't give you L then. Your letter is H. ;p

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

OOo Ooo Me me!

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Not to make it too easy, but you seem to be just begging for O so it's yours. :D

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

Oh spoons...where's my dictionary.,

[heavens-steed.livejournal.com]

Good choices, O literate one.

I'm not going to guarantee to do this, but if you want to give me a letter, you can and maybe I'll try it. I'm probably not smart enough to generate of vocabular list anything like yours.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

OK, you get R for perpetually Running yourself down, which you really need to stop doing. You are plenty smart, I think your problems are more like an inability to take decisive action.