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a flat altar where ambition and snacks compete for surface area daily
means A piece of furniture with a flat top, often with drawers, used for writing, reading, or working—typically while sitting.
from From Medieval Latin 'desca,' meaning a table to write on, which is almost certainly a borrowing of Latin 'discus' (a disk or dish, itself from Greek 'diskos'). The same 'discus' root branched out generously: it's a cousin of 'dish,' 'disc,' and even 'dais.' So your desk shares deep ancestry with the plate you eat off—fitting, given how often the two end up sharing its surface.
- latin root
- shares ancestry with 'disc' and 'dish'
- sitting cost
- prolonged desk use linked to shorter lifespans
- standing trend
- Hemingway and Churchill wrote upright
- messy desks
- linked to creativity in psychology studies
- first desks
- medieval monks copied texts at sloped boards
resolute desk — oval office desk used by u.s. presidents since 1880, made from hms resolute timbers
the writing desk — jane austen's small mahogany desk at jane austen's house museum in chawton, england
freud's desk — original desk in sigmund freud's vienna office, now at freud museum london