monstrum

And how much of a monstrum is there also in the death he is embracing?

Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010

And how much of a monstrum is there also in the death he is embracing?

On the Sublime Hal Duncan 2010

[ORIGIN: Latin - monstrum - ‘divine portent or warning, monster’, from monere ‘warn’] (Via Ask Oxford – Compact OED online)

A most poor credulous monster 2008

He must not bring about the monstrum of matricide.

Modality and Hamlet Hal Duncan 2010

In so far as such an offence may invoke not just ethical condemnation but emotional abhorrance, indeed, the action constitutes a monstrum, with a "must/should not happen" modaity in the boulomaic rather than deontic sense.

On the Sublime Hal Duncan 2010

In tragedy, the dictum and the monstrum go hand in hand.

Modality and Hamlet Hal Duncan 2010

But to leave Claudius on the throne, to leave his father a grisly spectre walking the battlements, to leave the rot in Denmark, this too would be a monstrum.

Modality and Hamlet Hal Duncan 2010

As in The Oresteia, that initial monstrum starts the drama off in a state of equilibrium warp.

Modality and Hamlet Hal Duncan 2010

The numen or monstrum, as it pertains to a potential action, is the staccatum rendered absolute, just as the dictum is the determina rendered absolute, stripped of any potential alternative.

Modality and Hamlet Hal Duncan 2010

So you read Bradbury's "The Veldt" and you have the viewscreen which starts out as a novum but ends up as a chimera (when the hologram lions actually eat the parents,) as a monstrum, in fact.

Modality and Hamlet Hal Duncan 2010