Huxley Aldous: Pripovijetke

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Author: Huxley Aldous
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Pripovijetke

Huxley Aldous

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Aldous Huxley: Short Stories

The English word bore, troublemaker, is of undetermined etymology. Some linguists derive it from the verb of the same name to bore, which means to drill. A bully is a man who drills a hole in your spirit, who mercilessly roars through your patience, through all the shields you have used to protect yourself in vain, pretending to be deaf, careless and rude - he drills and drills, until he twists you all the way to the very core. But there are other linguists, just as good if not better, who would derive this word from the French verb bourrer >to peck, to satiate".

According to this etymology, a botherer would be a man who tickles you with his thick, painful arguments, who pushes his tallow-coated person down your throat like a roller. He pecks at you, and you, to use a convenient comparison, are full to the brim. I gladly believe, although it is not possible, that both of these excerpts are correct, because the troublemakers are both drilling and pecking at you. They are like a dental drill, but also like old paper clips.

In addition, they have another feature that drill bits and paper clips do not have: they are beautiful. That's why, although I'm not a philologist, I dare to suggest a third derivative from the word burr, thistle.

Burr, bourrer, wrinkle, all the features of a bother, stickiness, pecking and drilling, are contained in those three possible roots. Each of them deserves to be accurate.

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