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Poetry would be good. Expresses your thoughts that rhyme!

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Doesn't help. Sorta gets it the way. Perhaps less so if you put etoliated in parens or em-dashes or drop it altogether. (What does it add?) A worthy experiment though.

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helpful two things - we have lost the art of reading poetry, maybe even the art of understanding prose. The word etiolated is so sensuous, I have wanted to resurrect it.

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Then use etoliated and put the ordinary word in parens ;-)

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