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Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Forgotten English…34

I don’t think I would ever like to hear this… storging The noise a large pin makes in going through flesh. [From] storg, a large pin. - Alexander Warrack’s Scots Dialect Dictionary, 1911 I really wonder who came up with this one. Maybe - Lady MacBeth…? Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, December 5, 2015

Forgotten English...33

No, this does not refer to your expanding waistline… plumper A plumper is a fine, thin, light ball which old ladies that have lost their side teeth hold in their mouths to plump out their cheeks, which else would hang like leathern bags. - John Dunton’s Ladies Dictionary: An Entertainment for the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Why does this trouble me?

Don’t you trouble your little head enough, Naut? Doesn’t all this fretting about the Islamic disease keep you pretty well occupied – must you really get into stuff like this? Stuff you actually don’t know much about? Yeah, yeah – I hear ya…And it’s true – I don’t know much about this, and I haven’t... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, November 29, 2015

Forgotten English…32

I can’t imagine anyone of you ever doing this… steehopping Gadding about idly to hear or carry news. Possibly from evedroppings, and may denote the conduct of eve-droppers, who harken for news under windows; expressive of the tale-bearer’s chief employment, to carry stories from house to house. -... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, November 27, 2015

Response-to-Comments Day…

Actually, today I am answering only one comment, one by PoeticPoet. In 'Views' I had posted part of an interview given by the Kuwaiti professor Ibtihal Al-Khatib, who calls for a ‘Reformation' of Islam, and I had entitled it ‘Another Voice of Reason.’ (If you want to read it, here it is:... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, November 26, 2015

A HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO OUR AMERICANS...

We had ours here in Canada so long ago that I have had enough time since to lose the weight I gained that day, I'm glad to say... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Catwatching...

I am going through stacks of files shredding things, always wondering what to keep, what to let go…making room, straightening things out…There are lengthy things I’ve written, only of very limited interest, lecture notes, and notes made on other occasion, many of them with ‘attached’ memories – I am... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, November 20, 2015

La Pocatière…IV

The cops! But then – what were they going to do? I scrambled back through that breach in the snow bank… There were two of them! One was speaking with the tow truck driver, the other one was still in the cruiser, talking on his radio. He quickly got out when he saw me, gave me the French version of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, November 19, 2015

La Pocatière…III

I stood there on that narrow strip of shoulder where the snow was mixed with dirt and salt, squinting in that blindingly brilliant morning sunlight, intensified by crystalline whiteness around me that seemed strangely hostile and overpowering. I was cold…I did wear a coat over my shirt and jeans,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

La Pocatière…II

This is the second part of something that occurred many years ago. There is no need to panic, dear Justi; it’s my actual, embodied self writing this, not my voice out of Hades, LOL… Even though my memory of the moment I woke is very vivid – a blur of visual and tactile sensations – describing it is... Sign in to see full entry.

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