How could I find a word if I already know its meaning? Or posing the question in a different way, what is the name for a book which is the complementary opposite to a dictionary? Does it exist at all? This stuff came to my mind when trying to explain that I sometimes feel I would like to live in certaing cities because the word designating its inhabitants sounded particularly well.And I have the vague impression that word in general is 'toponymic' ( rubbish speeling et al),but I am afraid it could be something totally different and i would make a fool of myself in this articulate list. Going into the heart of the matter, Toronto is one of this places.Torontonian sounds yeah, g-rrrr-e-a-t.So many t's,like a tarty tarantula dancing a tarantela.Steven Kado's posts also contribute to this impression that being a Torontonian is perpetual surreal partying.The same night he was requiring some expert's advice on his essays or at least some web page from where to copy these latter, I found this quote : 'She looked like a brilliantly catty novelist and reviewer with a PhD on Wittgenstein, and yet not quite,because no such person would have had a sking like that,a bosom like that,a dress like that.And not just not quite: not at all, beucause nobody with the whole lot like that would have dreamed of bothering with novels or Wittgenstein'. Despite the gender issue,would he mind to be described 'like that'?None of us will,I think.Though his picture on-board shows him closer to Bill Murray in the scene of 'Charlie's Angels' where he is busy raking into his gum seeking desperately that gagdet...umm.Steve,you could do much better,sure. Cryptic definitions of gamine : a)Small girl submitted to famine b)Hybrid inheriting the top of a gazelle and the tail of a feline. c)Brutal discos in 1996-anything femenine with crop and Adidas Gazelle. Crosswords have become a pilar of my existence in 2000. I told a friend I was in fear of agreeing too much with Julie Burchill lately and I have not heard from her since! The article that sprang this terror was the one brought into open discussion by Juicy, who looks lovely with her grown hair,I think.She (my Julie) is a bit alltogether confused with which range of age is 'teen-age',true,but I could not help nodding along to the core of her rants.It would give me personally the shivers to be seen as the pathetic thirty-something,still young-looking mum in few years time who believes she is cool because she recognizes which one is Daphne and which one is Celeste to the embarrasment of her six year old daughter. No doubt that the shiny,fluffy flame of POP! is fed by burning old grey brillo pads and whatever acrylic substance inside puffa jackets discarded at the age of fourteen to start aspiring to 'alternative' = unavailable in NewLook. Perhaps the most rad-ikal wing of the POP cult would support the idea of bathing Isobel Campbell in tar and sacrifice her in the eternal pyre of discomusic-for-fun,in a dislocating version of the spirit of Nation of Ulysses.Too many hours of Sanrio-shopping creates monsters. I typed 'Adrian Evans;baby' at the Sinister Search engine and all I got it was messages from the salad days where his actual spree was not even in the agenda...All I wanted to know it was what name he chose after Dylan was snatched from his careful fathering hands from celebrity couple not to be metioned. Every English person I encounter suffer a shock when I declare my Victoriana tendencies in such area.Edna? Lovely choice,though if I was Sinister-born again Cordelia or Marjorie would do. And to end, Agent Pennington, you were so right about the no-endings.Why nobody has dared so far to film a movie about the happy-no-endings of succesful relationships? There are many more boring arguments. A. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+