“I find my way around as the bats do—echolocation. I am the next stage in evolution. I shriek and listen to hear the contours of objects. I caress the world with my voice. It is a quaint and frivolous habit that shall one day prove to be mankind’s salvation.”
-M. T. Anderson, The Clue of the Linoleum Ledhosen, 56.
Commonplace-book. Formerly Book of common places. orig. A book in which ‘commonplaces’ or passages important for reference were collected, usually under general heads; hence, a book in which one records passages or matters to be especially remembered or referred to, with or without arrangement. First usage recorded: 1578. - OED
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
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