Pixilated

[Dave Monroe]

"But then came the day when he met, for the first
time, the real owner of a dream he, Pirate, had had:
it was by a drinking fountain in a park, a very long,
neat row of benches, a feeling of sea just over a
landscaped rim of small cypresses, gray rushed stone
on the walks looking soft to sleep on as the brim of a
fedora, and here comes this buttonless and drooling
derelict, the one you are afraid of ever meeting, to
pause and watch two Girl Guides trying to adjust the
water pressure of the fountain. They bent over,
unaware, the saucy darlings, of the fatal strips of
white cotton knickers thus displayed, the undercurves
of baby-fat little buttocks a blow to the Genital
Brain, however pixilated. The tramp laughed and
pointed, he looked back at Pirate then and said
something extraordinary: 'Eh? Girl Guides start
pumping water... your sound will be the sizzling
night... eh?' staring directly at no one but Pirate
now, no more pretense.... Well, Pirate had dreamed
these very words, morning before last, just before
waking, they'd been part of the usual list of prizes
in a Competition grown crowded and perilous, out of
some indoor intervention of charcoal streets... he
couldn't remember that well... scared out of his wits
by now, he replied, 'Go away, or I will call a
policeman.'" (GR, Pt. I, p. 13)

http://amb.cult.bg/american/6/pynchon/rainbow2.htm

A.Word.A.Day--pixilated
  
This week's theme: words to describe people. 

pixilated (PIK-suh-layt-id) adjective 

1. Mentally unbalanced; eccentric. 

2. Whimsical. 

[From pixie, a mischievous fairylike creature.] 

Today's word in Visual Thesaurus.

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/?w1=pixilated

-Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org) 

"Robert De Niro redeems himself after his disastrous
work in 'The Fan' by displaying a refreshing flair for
screwball comedy as Bessie's pixilated physician, Dr.
Wally." James Verniere; 'Marvin's Room' Hits Home;
Boston Herald; Jan 10, 1997.

http://wordsmith.org/words/pixilated.html

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