As poetry does, dementia demands that its audience, skittering along impatiently in daily life, pause and be — another loathsome word — present; alert to new associations, resistant to old grievances. It is a mystery, and a saga, a tragedy with glimmers of comedy that has inspired at least one great modern play: Kenneth Lonergan’s “The Waverly Gallery,” which in its 2018 revival showcased the great Elaine May.
Until there’s a pill to definitively forestall the fog, what can one say but let there be literature?
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fog
n.
- Condensed water vapor in cloudlike masses lying close to the ground and limiting visibility.
- An obscuring haze, as of atmospheric dust or smoke.
- A mist or film clouding a surface, as of a window, lens, or mirror.
- A cloud of vaporized liquid, especially a chemical spray used in fighting fires.
- A state of mental vagueness or bewilderment.
- Something that obscures or conceals; a haze: shrouded their actions in a fog of disinformation.
- A blur on a developed photographic image.
v., fogged, fog·ging, fogs. v.tr.
- To cover or envelop with or as if with fog.
- To cause to be obscured; cloud.
- To make vague, hazy, or confused: a memory that had been fogged by time.
- To obscure or dim (a photographic image).
- To be covered with or as if with fog.
- To be blurred, clouded, or obscured: My glasses fogged in the warm air.
- To be dimmed or obscured. Used of a photographic image.
[Perhaps of Scandinavian origin.]
fogger fog'ger n.
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