martinet
n.
1. A rigid military disciplinarian.
2. One who demands absolute adherence to forms and rules.
So called from an officer of that name in the French army under Louis XIV. Cf. Martin the bird, Martlet.] In military language, a strict disciplinarian; in general, one who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods. [Hence, the word is commonly employed in a depreciatory sense.]
Concocted on Saturday June 19, 2004
at night.
People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's
what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive,
so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within
our innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.
