We need an adjective.

[shadesong]

kires says:

Imagine lightning strikes, like, ten or twenty feet away. Blinding flash, takes over your brain. So. (Stop that.) (I'm going to pee on you.) (And just like that, it all went so horribly, horribly wrong.) (And now there shall be the ceremonial gnawing off of the leg. *Kires descends to leg* *'song squeaks like a chew toy* *'song stops directly transcribing and asks that you ignore all parenthetical statements*)

(Kires: "So who are you and why the jibbering fuck have you come to my planet?"
Kires: "That's spelled with a "g"."
'song: "I like it better with a "j".
Kires: "Oookay.")

So. Lightning.

(*massive gigglefits* Kires: "Oh, Christ.")

So. Lightning.

Big huge blinding flash of lightning right near you. When something hits that close, there is an utter and complete silence in your brain. A temporary silence, mind... truncated by the profoundly imminent arrival of the thunder.

We need an adjective for the qualities of that silence. The profound, stark, inexorably doomed, ridiculously brief, all-encompassing nature of it. Being nearly instantly destroyed by the fact and nature of its existence.

Suggestions?

Now we are going to go see about some dinner. So he can not eat my leg. Not much good eatin' on my leg, anyway.

(*Kires belches*)

Comments

[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

Isn't that the definition of "svaha"?

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Close; we want an adjective for the sound, though, not the moment overall.

[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

ah. I'll have to think on it.

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

I got nothin' for you there, but I need to say that this is one of the best porno titles ever.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

*metal horns*
*headbang*

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

You are truly the Fonz of tiny chicks. :)

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Woohoo!

[ulitave.livejournal.com]

given that I lived through that exact experience and lived, you'd think I'd have already come up with a word for it. I might need more than a word.

[ewin.livejournal.com]

The profound, stark, inexorably doomed, ridiculously brief, all-encompassing nature of it. Being nearly instantly destroyed by the fact and nature of its existence.

The word "stop" works like that. I almost want to say "a silent stop".

People use to use the word "check" like that, too... "The world checked, and then continued."

"Stifled silence"... "choked silence"... that's sudden and painful, but perhaps not indicative enough of brevity. "Petrified" comes to mind. Same problem.

"Concussive", maybe?

[jmspencer.livejournal.com]

I've actually used percussive silence, though I like concussive. The first word I thought of for it was in the original post: "inexorable"

[peterchayward.livejournal.com]

Ooh. Johnny Depp + Eddie Izzard = kickarse icon.

[fujerica.livejournal.com]

"an angel passed"

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

That's missing a word, and the word is..."Wind".


I'm going to burn in the special hell for that one

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Not sure about adjectives, but I can think of few good anglo-saxon nouns for it...
and at least one punctuation mark; "!"

Although seriously [yeah right!] Fractured silence... kinda conjures the moment.

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I can imagine myself writing "There was a momentary - ! - of silence, before the thunder crashed in."

[miintikwa.livejournal.com]

Lull.

Potential.

I dunno. I checked my Synonym Finder, but really didn't find anything I liked other than those two.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Aeoss. (Pronounced [ay' osh].) From an old, old idea that I never did anything with. Pity.

[rowancat.livejournal.com]

Happened to me and i still don't have a name to describe it.
My first visit to Cambridge, checking apartments near Hvd Sq,
already had a job there.
On a tree lined residential street, sudden storm came up, monsoon
like rain, i took shelter on someones porch.

Suddenly, no warning, a huge brilliant massive bolt of lightning
hit a tree directly across the street. I was stunned, half blinded, half deaf
and hit with one hell of an adrenaline rush. Just stood there in disbelief.
Just "Wow!" You don't often experience something like that with absolutely no ill effects to yourself. It was both fun in a thrill like way and totally awe inspiring. That moment is very sharply engraved in my mind :)

[peterchayward.livejournal.com]

"Gibber"? That doesn't make sense...I've always spelt it jibber. Unless you mean "gibberish". But jibber-jabber is proof of the "j" spelling.

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

Traditionally, gibberish is what your produced when gibbering. "jibber" makes me think of executions. But yes, as you note, there is precedent for using a "j" instead. It's hard to justify strict spelling rules for words that were created onomatopoeically in the first place! =:o}