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All we know is stories. Some are helpful, some not. None are reality. Reality is not a story. Reality is what is. And this is beyond words.
1,062 Posts by notrehta
1,062 Posts by notrehta
Think your kid is smart enough for a scholarship to Eton? Have him/her take this test & this
etoncollege.com/userfiles/file/KS%202011%20General%20Paper%201.pdf
Seriously, that Eton scholarship exam question is spectacular: http://t.co/q5D6XrrZ9h http://t.co/ZjEWbCgw7n
English is born free, though everywhere someone is trying to put it in chains." —
unabridged.merriam-webster.com/blog/2013/05/dictionary-fundamentalism-and-other-heresies/
At Merriam-Webster's "A Thing About Words," my guest post on dictionary fundamentalism: http://t.co/VTVWqxDKVe
word list
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byproduct/by-product … MW11 still uses hyphen; updated entry in word list today even so http://t.co/Lo1v5zJJKU
wurdz today | notrehta
notrehta.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/wurdz-today-5/
wurdz today: ecdysiast, flaccid, jejune, megalomaniacal, misogynistic, prowess, saltire, scion http://t.co/vs0floyo0m + hover for quick def
Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing — wonder."
exp.lore.com/post/50984040400/wonders-of-life
The notion of a separate being “is an emergent illusion created by the sheer complexity of our arrangement of atoms.” http://t.co/K0ib5CwHaL
Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing — wonder."
exp.lore.com/post/50984040400/wonders-of-life
"Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing — wonder." http://t.co/gEX7cwZQfB
Virginia Woolf: Craftsmanship post includes link to full text … audio is 1937 BBC recording of excerpt read by author
notrehta.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/virginia-woolf-craftsmanship-excerpt/
Virginia Woolf: Craftsmanship http://t.co/aroXOZIf2p post includes link to full text … audio is 1937 BBC recording of excerpt read by author
New from Rebecca Solnit on what comes after hope: "The future is bigger than our imaginations." via
tomdispatch.com/post/175701/
Rebecca Solnit “taught me that acting, even while not knowing, is a powerful antidote to despair.” Tom Englehardt http://t.co/d91Bh0kfO7
New from Rebecca Solnit on what comes after hope: "The future is bigger than our imaginations." via
tomdispatch.com/post/175701/
Rebecca Solnit: Too Soon to Tell http://t.co/d91Bh0kfO7 “Despair is often premature: it’s a form of impatience as well as certainty.”
Dictionary of Difficult Words - visile
talktalk.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/data/d0013614.html
visile [VIZ-ahyl] (n, adj) … (someone) with mental processes most readily stimulated by visual impressions http://t.co/teyi7ZJjEm
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