Evanescent

By Deane Barker • • tags: definition •

Definition: fleeting; likely to vanish

Why I Looked It Up

I remember the 90s emo band Evanescence (that’s a word too, referring to the property of vanishing).

Also, in The Real Work I found this:

We live in an achievement-driven society in which kids of all kinds and classes […] are perpetually being pushed toward the next evanescent achievement instead of the next enduring accomplishment.

Links from this – The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery August 24, 2023
This book annoyed the hell out of me. This is another book that doesn’t really describe anything in any objective sense. Rather, it’s a…"meditation” on something. It comes off feeling indulgent and narcissistic. The writer jumps around. He talks about how he tried to master drawing, then he goes...