Day 882: cower

Stop cowering! I'm not going to hit you.

Artwork of the day
Fear
Jean Dubuffet
Date: 1924

Word of the day
cower: to lower your head or body in fear, often while moving backwards

Quote of the day 
“Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin