@anthonyetherin.bsky.social
Poetry and music born from rules and rebellion. Host of the Fate of the Arts podcast KNIT INK (AND OTHER POEMS): https://store.deepvellum.org/products/knitink AnthonyEtherin.com
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10.02.2026 19:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0TRANSMOGRIFICATION (Anagrammed Lines)
Transmogrification!
Instigator for manic
magic — for transition.
Strict origin of a man
arising into cat form.
Emit a tale woven one vowel at a time.
#palindrome
WORD FACT
The SARCs in sarcophagus and sarcasm are the same. They come from the Greek root “sarx-“, meaning “flesh”.
“Sarcophagus” literally means flesh-eater.
“Sarcasm” effectively means flesh-tearer — because the right sarcastic comment cuts deep.
WORD FACT
The SARCs in sarcophagus and sarcasm are the same. They come from the Greek root “sarx-“, meaning “flesh”.
“Sarcophagus” literally means flesh-eater.
“Sarcasm” effectively means flesh-tearer — because the right sarcastic comment cuts deep.
Emit a tale woven one vowel at a time.
#palindrome
TRANSMOGRIFICATION (Anagrammed Lines)
Transmogrification!
Instigator for manic
magic — for transition.
Strict origin of a man
arising into cat form.
FAMINE MOON (Palindrome)
No omen, I’m a foetal stone.
I die, null, at a fate lit far —
die raw, one loss, Selene resewn
on woe. We lord a memo, star
afar, at some mad role we own.
On, we, serene, less sole now are.
I draft. I let a fatal lune.
I die, not slate. O, famine moon!
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WORD FACT
“Petrichor” — which describes the scent released from the earth after the first rain following a dry spell — was coined in 1964 by Australian scientists Isabel Joy Bear and Richard Grenfell Thomas.
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Purchase my omnibus poetry collection KNIT INK (and Other Poems) from my wonderful publisher @deepvellum.bsky.social:
Paperback: store.deepvellum.org/products/kni...
Audiobook: libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
The word is constructed from “petra”, meaning rock, and “ichor”, the mythical divine fluid in gods’ veins.
The idea is that the scent rain releases is that of the earth’s lifeblood.
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WORD FACT
“Petrichor” — which describes the scent released from the earth after the first rain following a dry spell — was coined in 1964 by Australian scientists Isabel Joy Bear and Richard Grenfell Thomas.
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FAMINE MOON (Palindrome)
No omen, I’m a foetal stone.
I die, null, at a fate lit far —
die raw, one loss, Selene resewn
on woe. We lord a memo, star
afar, at some mad role we own.
On, we, serene, less sole now are.
I draft. I let a fatal lune.
I die, not slate. O, famine moon!
Ha!
08.02.2026 21:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0No, but I like the way you think.
08.02.2026 20:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I've recently started work on my first novel. Yes, it's a work of constraint. And it stars her:
08.02.2026 19:27 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0I suspected as much.
08.02.2026 20:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Veronica Lake.
Though Kim Basinger was cast in LA Confidential because of her resemblance to Lake.
I've recently started work on my first novel. Yes, it's a work of constraint. And it stars her:
08.02.2026 19:27 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
THE YETI SPEAKS (whose two halves use the same letters, in the same order):
08.02.2026 10:33 — 👍 34 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 3WORD FACT
The “redivider” is a literary constraint whereby two texts use the same letters, in the same order, while varying spacing and punctuation. For example,
Together, egos ail.
To get here, go sail.
(Enjoy the superb owl!)
Thanks!
08.02.2026 13:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you, Ian. Great to see you here, btw!
08.02.2026 11:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0WORD FACT
The “redivider” is a literary constraint whereby two texts use the same letters, in the same order, while varying spacing and punctuation. For example,
Together, egos ail.
To get here, go sail.
(Enjoy the superb owl!)
THE YETI SPEAKS (whose two halves use the same letters, in the same order):
08.02.2026 10:33 — 👍 34 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 3VIRAL (Palindrome)
Pure viral life,
we sire, we rise,
we fill a river up.
WORD FACT
The Greek verb “temnein” (to cut) and its associated noun “tomos” (a section or piece cut off) are responsible for a lot of English toms…
In medicine:
Anatomy — literally, “cutting up” → knowledge from dissection
Lobotomy — “lobe cutting”
Appendectomy — “appendix cutting”
etc.
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FATE OF THE ARTS, Episode 4
A reupload of my 2022 conversation with Anthony Horowitz.
Topics of conversation include wordplay and structure, genre and tradition, and adapting novels for film & TV.
Listen here:
anthonyetherin.substack.com/p/fate-of-th...
In poetry and such:
tmesis: cutting words apart for stylistic/metrical reasons.
Kind of like when adding a swear in "abso-@#$-lutely"
