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If I flimmer, the unconscious, apparently in a misguided effort to be helpful, throws up heaps of material, not all of it relevant, that would make every story into an epic if I squeezed it all in.
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But if I could flimmer my way through and still come up with a good book, I would prefer to work that way.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Diana Gabaldon pt. 2 2008
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This is sometimes called flimmering (flimmer = to flicker or move erratically.)
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Postscript: When I was looking up flimmer in the Shorter Oxford, I found the lovely word flindermouse.
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October 19th, 2009 at 1:42 pm thank you, dr. flimmer. i do appreciate your kind words and explanation. time and work limitations make it impossible for me to follow every thread, so i might not always know of another's posting reputation. and i do frequent BA, because the discussions and content there are most enlightening – even if i don't speak.
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Just ahead, you may have insurance, but you may need another kind of more spiritual coverage for the family flimmer (ph).
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Just ahead, you may have insurance, but you may need another kind of more spiritual coverage for the family flimmer (ph).
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A breeze blew thinly under strange constellations and auroral flimmer.
Ensign Flandry Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1966
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"Do ye let whigmaleeries flimmer in yer noddle at a time like this?"
All-Wool Morrison Holman Day 1900
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Maybe when I remember my mother refusing even a teaspoon of the watery broth we offered her-the cancer was so eminently painful by then, and so obviously medically unassailable-and when I see her turning into a project made of fluorescent light and gossamer, ready to flimmer away on someone's sigh or a nurse's cough.
VQR 2008
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