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Underestimating power

Cute bit from Overheard in New York: The United Nations, Encapsulated Dude #1: They have been underestimating my power. Dude... (More...)

Emperors

Found while trying to decide whether to keep various paperbacks from among my father's books: It is not always a... (More...)

Latin verb placement

Peter Dickinson is probably best known in sf circles for the fictional-science book The Flight of Dragons and the kids'... (More...)

Dirge Without Music

Another thing I just found in old email. Dirge Without Music by Edna St. Vincent Millay; from The Buck in... (More...)

Poly Pogo

Just came across this tidbit in old email. In the Pogo comic strip dated 13 December 1951, Churchy and Albert... (More...)

Greek suffix meets Lingua Terra

Sometimes people complain that the word polyamory is a mix of Latin and Greek roots. I've been known to make... (More...)

Austen on journaling

I've finished Mansfield Park, which I'll write more about later, and have started Northanger Abbey, which contains more lively and... (More...)

Orwell on writing

Vardibidian's comments on The Elements of Style indirectly brought to mind George Orwell's 1946 essay "Politics and the English Language."... (More...)

Zinsser

Just came across something I posted to a mailing list back in mid-1999; thought it was worth recycling as a... (More...)

Spam notes

Noted in passing: got spam this morning from one Ereshkigal Browne. Who knew that the goddess of the underworld had... (More...)

Thoreau on journaling

A conversation with Karen M. the other night somehow came 'round to the Transcendentalists, which reminded me of one of... (More...)

Dancing quote

I can't find my book darts, so here's another commonplace-book entry: Dear me, dancing is peculiar when you really think... (More...)

Two Le Guin quotations

I see no reason not to use a journal as, among other things, a commonplace book. So I'll quote two... (More...)