zetetic - adjective - proceeding by inquiry or investigation (Lexico.com)
Here's a rare one for you, and it begins with a z, too. You probably don't have too many go-to words beginning with that letter. Neither do I. I chose this little ditty because this morning I was awoken by the strident sounds of large trucks. It was the audio equivalent of waking up alongside an interstate highway sans the swoosh of forward movement. Needless to say, I wasn't happy about it.
One of the houses across the street was recently sold for 600K and marked for removal. In the soon-to-be present, a sweet, 1940s Cape Cod will be crushed to pieces, its ashen remains carted away to prepare for its successor, a million-dollar McMansion with no real personality and chatty children and their clueless parents as inhabitants. Such is the way of the New York City suburbs these days.
To continue, I stood poised in my bedroom window awaiting the first crushing blow to the roof that I was thinking of filming for TikTok as a subtle political statement. I can't think of what that could be right now, and it doesn't matter because I have no video to post. A local police officer put a stop to progress by asking for the necessary papers that the demolition crew couldn't produce. The whole zetetic process took a few minutes although the crew had been loitering, frozen in front of the house for two hours, most likely waiting for the cop. So much for that. Who knows when the poor overgrown house that looks like Bo Radley's will be put out of its misery? I hope soon.
The takeaway? Anything zetetic in nature will most likely take time and will inhibit a degree of forward movement. It is what it is. At least we got a new word out of the deal.
Happy Tuesday!
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