Sunday, August 9, 2015

The Word -Feuilleton

He'd tried to fight the men as they pulled him from the cell, but they'd treated him like a young child, easily moving him across the grass into a manor looking house, hardly letting him find his feet. They tossed Kolton down to the ground in front of another man, this one with a disgustingly greasy beard. He hardly looked like the type to read, but the man folded a feuilleton segment of paper and set it down on a side table before he leaned forward. "So, A noble is it." He said with a sneer.
"I am Kolt--" A whack to the head left me seeing stars.
"I did not say you could speak, slave." He said calmly, replacing a walking stick in its position by his chair. "Noble blood never listens, you'll learn fast enough though."
"Release me! You have no rig--~ he cried out again as the stick whacked his head.

"Stop that!"
Another whack. "I can do this all day slave. Do not speak, or you get hit, is that so hard to understand."
He glared up at the man. "Unhand--" He tried to avoid the stick but it was quicker than he. Giving him another whack to the head.


Feuilleton - 1: a story printed in installments 2: a short literary composition often having a familiar tone and reminiscent content.

Added Info - In addition to its other meanings, "feuilleton" can mean "a part of a European newspaper or magazine devoted to material designed to entertain the general reader," and, in fact, this was the word's original meaning. The feuilleton originated in French newspapers as a supplement sectioned out from the main news stories. Although found in the political section of the newspaper, the feuilleton typically included material on nonpolitical subjects, such as art, literature, or fashion. Fiction was sometimes included as well. The word is a diminutive of the French Feuillet, meaning "sheet of paper," and ultimately derives from Latin folium, meaning "leaf." From this source, English acquired "folio" (which can refer to a page, or a leaf, of a book or manuscript) and "foliage" ("a mass of leaves.")

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