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Interesting article...

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/2015...

So what happened with English? It’s a story of invasions, thefts, sloth, caprice, mistakes, pride and the inexorable juggernaut of change. In its broadest strokes, these problems come down to people – including you and me, dear readers – being greedy, lazy and snobbish.

'Phrases and clauses and models and structures,' Troeltsch says...'We need an inflation-generative grammar.'
Keith Freer makes a motion as if taking his unit out of his towel and holding it out at Troeltsch: 'Generate this.'

(pg.100)

"John Wayne, as do most Canadians, lifts one leg slightly to fart, like the fart was some kind of task, standing at his locker, waiting for his feet to get dry enough to put on socks." (pg. 95)

'Fit Forever' home-aerobics series of the InterLace aerobics-guru Ms. Tawni Kondo, the scantily clad and splay-limbed immodesty of which threatens the devout medical attache with the possibility of impure thoughts."

aerobics threatening - lol

Wish they would give you more characters for longer quotes you want to share.

It was entirely possible that one song could destroy your life. Yes, musical doom could fall on a lone human form & crush it like a bug. The song, that song, was sent from somewhere else to find you, to pick the scab of your whole existence. The song was your personal shitty fate, manifest as a throb of pop floating out of radios everywhere. At the very least the song was the soundtrack to ur destruction, the theme.

The kid read books like he was engaged in some sort of scavenger procedure, scowling in concentration, turning pages at improbable speed while he flayed away the inessential flesh of prose and inspected the skeleton of the story, the bare facts or crucial nonsense. Dylan Ebdus didn't read, he filleted.
(pg. 98)

Ahhhhh.....100 pages in and I'm not feeling it yet...not like I did with The 42nd Parallel. So far it's just okay.....it is 511 pages so I'm hoping it picks up soon for me.

"In truth, Superman in his Fortress of Solitude reminded you all too much of Abraham in his high studio, brooding over nothing." (pg. 66)

"By that time he had considerable fame in the country as the boy editor of the first newspaper to be published on a moving train. The London Times wrote him up." (pg. 233)

The boy was Thomas Edison.

Ward and Eleanor have met now....I wonder if an affair will begin.....

Eleanor Stoddard.

Really liking this book btw - loving actually. : )

Although the act performed in The Return is despicable, I enjoyed the story of the ghost.

How was Sri Chinmoy so prolific? He believed the key was meditation. As he once explained, “The outer mind is like the surface of the sea. On the surface, the sea is full of waves and surges ... But when we dive deep below, the same sea is all peace, calmness and quiet, and there we find the source of creativity.”

-mentalfloss.com

How was Sri Chinmoy so prolific? He believed the key was meditation. As he once explained, “The outer mind is like the surface of the sea. On the surface, the sea is full of waves and surges ... But when we dive deep below, the same sea is all peace, calmness and quiet, and there we find the source of creativity.”

“The outer mind is like the surface of the sea. On the surface, the sea is full of waves and surges ... But when we dive deep below, the same sea is all peace, calmness and quiet, and there we find the source of creativity.”

Sri Chinmoy

My favorite so far is William Burns. I had more questions I wanted answered so I could see this turn into a book. Joanna Silvestri was "interesting".

There's a black bird sitting in front of my window facing me on the telephone lines. I noticed it since I got home at 4pm so not sure if it was there before but it's going on 2 hours. Is it just a bird or not a good sign. Hope to God just a weird bird that has been sitting in the same spot for that long since I have never seen a bird stay in one spot for so long.

There's a black bird sitting in front of my window facing me on the telephone lines. I noticed it since I got home at 4pm so not sure if it was there before but it's going on 2 hours. Is it just a bird or not a good sign. Hope to God just a weird bird that has been sitting in the same spot for that long since I have never seen a bird stay in one spot for so long.

"Indeed, were you to step on the tail of a snake it would not be so cruel nor half so fell as woman in wrath - vengeance is then their sole desire. Wrath is a sin, one of the seven deadly sins, abominable to the God of Heaven; and it is the destruction of the sinner. Any illiterate curate or parson can tell you homicide is bred of wrath; truly, it is the active agent of pride" (p. 239).

At the park doing some reading........lovin the breeze.

I need to learn how to speed read. Maybe I'll rewatch that Bazpierce video were he gave some tips.