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(07-01-2018 09:19 AM)The Lizard of Oz Wrote:  

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If you're on your own, your day will be even purer -- it will be filled with longueurs that only a very long, very hot, very solitary summer day can contain. There isn't a better context in which to experience the passage of time as such. But make sure you have a film lined up for that almost mythical moment -- still eons away -- when the daylight finally and slowly dissolves and gives way to a hot and nasty darkness. What better than, say, a screwball comedy from 1941 called "Bedtime Story" that slakes your eyes with a black and while that just a few hours before you would not have believed was possible?
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This warrants an intervention by the French Grammar Gendarmerie Lizard, it's languor, not longueur (=length in French), from the French verb languir, which means to languish.

Circulez.