Word: dotards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shrill penetrating whine. The other has no holes and gives out a drone. Snakes have no ears. But under their skin they have two primitive ear drums and through those the Indian snake feels the pungi's vibrations. And to them it wags its head like a tremulous dotard, puffing and belching the while...
This story should have concerned the old man intimately since it devoted its comment to the cycle of reactions through which that dotard had just passed - the chemistry of the human spirit in the alembic of time. Outlined against the movement of the writing - a writing informed, under its cool, low laughter, with an unforgettable emotion - moved phantoms the old man knew, ghosts that had shared and lost with him the long war of innocence against the lie of actuality. Sometimes the clear words seemed about to utter the unutterable, to shape the secret that everyone knows...