#indefinable

[deepwaterfiction]

Deep Water Prompt #2648

“Where is the water?” she asks, using one sharp finger to prod at my stomach. “We know you’ve got it in there, somewhere.”

[j-august]

He breathed deeply, savouring the heady, herb-scented air of an Aegean dawn. The salt tang of the sea, the drowsily sweet perfume of honeysuckle, the more delicate, sharper fragrance of mint all subtly merged into an intoxicating whole, indefinable, unforgettable.

Alistair MacLean, The Guns of Navarone

[howifeltabouthim]

She hesitated on the final word, but there was no other she could use. They were not friends but they were not lovers either. They were neither—yet.

Mary Balogh, from Thief of Dreams

[mogai-nightmarket]

Indefecchio.

a gender that has been for so long, it is indefinable, except by the creatures that roamed the earth long before you did.

Ordered by: no one

Coined by: @the-gendermarket (me!)

Flag made by:

[fieriframes]

[3 images. A close up of a bowl. A man standing in front of a store. A bowl of soup. Captions: The Bible will guide you. It will be a light unto your path. Good, then, is indefinable.... For though men be ignorant, yet they are men]

[a-path-by-the-moon]

[incrediblegirl]

already have one but nobody is here to see it

[sleepydrummer]

[...] distil the eternal from the transitory.

Charles Baudelaire, “The Painter of Modern Life” (1863)