Author: Arch Copy
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The Joy of Thesauri
I’ve been getting my thesaurus on. As you know, I recently acquired the latest New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors, and it inspired me to pay more attention to my collection (yes, collection) of thesauri. The word thesaurus comes from the Greek thēsauros, meaning ‘storehouse’ or ‘treasure’. That is undebatably fantastic. So it pleases…
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The Scarlet Letter
Last night I found The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne on my tablet and started reading it out loud – largely to annoy Phil. It’s gloriously verbose and the language is a joy. The poor lamb couldn’t understand why it took a whole page to say “Some old English birds were there.” Oh, but the description…
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Book 1: Dare Me by Megan Abbott
I went into the library on Saturday and picked up book number one on the first shelf to the left – what I would consider to be the first book in the library. It’s a book about cheerleaders. It seems to be for adults, which is confusing, and is a confection of made-up compound adjectives.…
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My Opus
It is fairly important that you go take a look at my disserta— I mean the ingenie Young Driver Report. We’ve been working on it for a long time now and I’ve had dreams about road safety statistics. So do me a solid: go have a skim. The ingenie Young Driver Report >
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Snorri Sturluson
Was there ever a more Icelandic name than Snorri Sturluson? It’s like a swirling, whirling snowstorm. Snorri Sturluson was a poet, lawyer and historian, born in 1179. He is famous for having proposed that our gods begin life as earthly warriors, then rise to deity as cults grow around their tombs. Mourners call their dead leader’s name…
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