Inchoate Rage

Yep, that's what I said...

Inchoate rage...

It popped into my head... the phrase, not the emotion...

And I struggled to

a) remember where I'd heard the phrase before

and

b) Describe exactly what it meant...

Quick, to Google...

A short search later and I find that Inchoate means in an initial stage, or imperfectly formed... I guess it's sort of a semi articulate rage - where you can't quite explain how or why, you're just angry...

Grr...

Anyway, while searching I remembered where I'd seen it first... In the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - an odd, extraordinary, multiple trilogy, involving a leper as it's hero...

Yep, a leper, as hero...

It's both better and worse than it sounds... In fact, I must read it again...

Short version, I'm in a bad mood...

Long version, now you have a new word, a book recommendation and the same twin mystery that has plagued me for years...

a) How to pronounce inchoate

and

b) How to sneak it into a casual conversation (or a blog post)

(woohoo, mission accomplished...)

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