Day 1,636: connived, flicker

No one knew what they were up to while they connived to rob the bank.

In some mid-sized countries, such as Thailand and Turkey, hope flickered as the opposition pushed hard to eject autocratic regimes, but those regimes held on at elections skewed in their favour.

The Economist’s country of the year for 2023

Artwork of the day 
The connivance
Rene Magritte
Original Title: La connivence
Date: 1965; Belgium
Style: Surrealism
Period: Later Period
Genre: symbolic painting

Word of the day 
connived: cooperated secretly, plotted, schemed
flicker: to shine with a light that is sometimes bright and sometimes weak: to appear for a short time or to make a suddenmovement:

Quote of the day
“I know because I was also broken as a child and forced to become a wicked conniving selfish manipulating monster in order to protect the fragile love-hungry girl who would have been destroyed by the life I had to lead.”

― Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind