"I don’t want you to conclude that it’s just a matter of aesthetics. Yes, Webster’s [1913] definitions are prettier. But they are also better. In fact they’re so much better that to use another dictionary is to keep yourself forever at arm’s length from the actual language.Recall that the New Oxford, for the word 'fustian,' … Continue reading You’re Probably Using the Wrong Dictionary
Author: cafebedouin
Dead Poet’s Society: Past, Future & Forgiveness
"If our lives are the tales that Allah tells, then we are the audience as well as the players, and it is by living those tales that we receive their lessons...Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough."Ted Chaing, The Merchant and … Continue reading Dead Poet’s Society: Past, Future & Forgiveness
