the meaning of everything
the meaning of everything, simon winchester, Oxford UP, paperback 2004
p. 17
"whoreson beetle-headed flap-ear'd knave" –Taming of the Shrew
p. 171
"an utter numb-skull … a most lack-a-daisical, graspless fellow, born to stare at existence"
--random insult
p. 211
James Platt "a polymath and ghost story writer who knew scores of languages and once famously declared that the first twelve tongues were always the most difficult, but having mastered them, the following hundred should not pose too much of a problem."
p. 17
"whoreson beetle-headed flap-ear'd knave" –Taming of the Shrew
p. 171
"an utter numb-skull … a most lack-a-daisical, graspless fellow, born to stare at existence"
--random insult
p. 211
James Platt "a polymath and ghost story writer who knew scores of languages and once famously declared that the first twelve tongues were always the most difficult, but having mastered them, the following hundred should not pose too much of a problem."
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