Poor Imp

Oy, no emo leanings here. ^_^ ...But I've often had too much fun with words to worry about all that was behind them; rather like sleight-of-hand. A game then...yet not ...

@_@ well I really don't need it to last a month! I made a huge batch (36 cookies by golly!) and couldn't finish baking them all. It was kind of ...

Oh, it ought to last a couple of days at the very least. Certainly won't go rotten in day. Frozen, of course, it might last for a month or more. ...

But he never really liked his writing style! He thought it was too clunky. He always considered himself to be more of a poet, and when his poetry wasn't well ...

True there - he gives an example, one beautiful, the other a headache (to be kind).^_^ But he seems to react to confused complexity, and dismiss (to some extent) a ...

Hehehe... I think he's trying to say how language should be clear and beautiful. ;) About beauty? That I missed - he certainly wants it clear. ^_^

Haha, I stopped half-way. Basically what this guy is saying is that the English language (or any language for that sake) must be lodged. That it shouldn't evolve. Oh evolve ...

Inept and im precise. Oy. ^_^''

Or the reverse. ;) That's the reverse of my first sentence, or second/third? :P

Orwell here is bit of Anglophile as far as language goes, caught in a communist scare, isn't he? ^_~ Some very interesting thoughts there though. Bad education, inept thought...all lead ...

When he deserves it - to put it flippantly so don't mind that for a moment. If I don't knock into things too much, or hold on too tightly to ...

You've got an uncommon distance hovering around this bit, DD - as if you're holding it at arm's length, perhaps? A strength in your writing (and in the Chair) is ...

Manalive by GK Chesterton ...and almost anything by Chesterton. The Man Who Was Thursday ... Napoleon of Notting Hill . Seconded - The Brothers Karamazov and by Dostoyevsky as well ...

Ah...heaved as in vomit - makes a bit more sense. ^_^ I just haven't ever seen it used in connection with merely spit/saliva; maybe because it sounded stronger than what ...

Brief grammar remarks first... "Weren't you afraid of being tried?" I asked uncertainly. "Frightened is the word," father muttered. "Anything could have happened, depending on who was to lead the ...