http://www.sourcetext.com/grammarian/the-booklets/index.htmlThis one may need a bit of explaining.
My signature:
"The castigation of fools is, of course, an ancient
and honorable task of writers and, unless very poorly
done, an enterprise that will usually entertain those who behold it."
~ Richard Mitchell
Is by The Underground Grammarian. Here is a sampling:
- We live in a time when writing--writing has become too common, too widespread
among us. I expect any day to meet a man at a cocktail party and ask him what he
does and he says, "I'm a writer," and I ask him, "Oh, what have you written?" and he
answers, "Close cover before striking."
- The Greeks did not see education as a process that might culminate in the practice
of a profession, or in anything else, for that matter. They saw it as an endless
exploration, not a way of making a living, but a way of trying--only trying, no
more--to live wisely. It is a measure of our values that we deem any powers other
than those by which we make our livings either harmless diversions or elitist
luxuries. For the Greeks, education was simply a necessity, not a necessity for
life--all creatures have that--or for the happy life--nothing can assure that--but
for the virtuous life, whose principles can be discovered, and whose attributes do
not change with the turnings of the wheels of fashion and fortune.
Richard Mitchell is a gift you give to yourself.
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Okay,
Father Luke