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
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Eschaton
It's gonna be the future soon: I won't always be this way.
When the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away.
-Jonathan Coulton, "The Future Soon"
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