intermundio &mdash; Nomina Numina https://nominanumina.com/tag:intermundio Living between worlds Fri, 18 Sep 2026 07:42:30 +0000 https://i.snap.as/4F4yk21H.png intermundio &mdash; Nomina Numina https://nominanumina.com/tag:intermundio The unintended enervation of the bivious traveller https://nominanumina.com/the-unintended-enervation-of-the-bivious-traveller?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[As a traveller on the road of an anomalous inner life, I can report that fatigue and a certain inability to fix my attention are its tolls now. It is the act of living two lives simultaneously, and today I feel that burden plainly. A choice made for the sake of two, and freely made — but a burden all the same. !--more-- Bivious, adj. Having two ways; leading two ways. — Webster's, 1891 Older writers warned that bivious demurs breed devious resolutions. I contend they were at least half right. Yet the other half has proven stranger than I anticipated. I pray for sleep, to dream of home — of her. #Philology #Intermundio --- By D. Bowman Nomina Numina is a journal of my reflections, moments, and meaning-making between worlds. Reply by email.]]> As a traveller on the road of an anomalous inner life, I can report that fatigue and a certain inability to fix my attention are its tolls now. It is the act of living two lives simultaneously, and today I feel that burden plainly. A choice made for the sake of two, and freely made — but a burden all the same.

Bivious, adj. Having two ways; leading two ways. — Webster's, 1891

Older writers warned that bivious demurs breed devious resolutions. I contend they were at least half right. Yet the other half has proven stranger than I anticipated.

I pray for sleep, to dream of home — of her.

#Philology #Intermundio

By D. Bowman Nomina Numina is a journal of my reflections, moments, and meaning-making between worlds. Reply by email.

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