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« on: July 02, 2009, 03:37:25 AM »


http://www.sourcetext.com/grammarian/the-booklets/index.html

This 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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"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
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