word finding

[sagehen]

> .... odd word choices tend to make my
>mind turn to jelly, so that i can't think of what *i* might say in
>these circumstances.........
>arnold
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Exactly.  I know the feeling well.  It's a bit like being blinded by a
bright light; I can't see anything but the damned afterimage of the thing I
want to correct.
AM

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