Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.
Alexander TherouxTags: humor reading books humour literature vocabulary
September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.
Alexander TherouxI thought... their elegance... lies not so much in their
clothes as in their bodies, and their bodies have received it, and continue to unceasingly receive it, from their souls, which are just like yours, lovely Simonetta.
. . . it is called 'camel case' or 'intercapping' -- of writing small letters next to large in the same word, as in such popular significations as iPod, eBay, iTunes, etc. which few would argue is a distinct sign of illiteracy.
Alexander TherouxIf on a friend’s bookshelf
You cannot find Joyce or Sterne
Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton,
You are in danger, face the fact,
So kick him first or punch him hard
And from him hide behind a curtain.
Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.
Alexander TherouxTags: artist
Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined
with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.
Tags: funny
The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.
Alexander TherouxThe complexity of language, he thought to himself, lies not in its subject matter but in our knotted understanding.
Alexander TherouxThe best reason for disbelieving in God is that he never gave us enough time in life to pursue enough knowledge to find sufficient truth.
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