Great find and posting Wanswheel.
Think I will post this quote in the Geology Lab.
" Our grand business, as a philosopher says, is not to grasp at the stars but to do faithfully life’s common work as it comes".
Need more of that these days!
Thanks Wanswheel! Don’t you love that 1915 prose, almost musical and a piece of art in it’s own right.
Sadly, it wouldn’t work nowadays, anymore than Mozart on MTV would, but classy connosieurs (did I spell that correctly? Probably not) of the printed word who visit this site sure love it!
Using the spellchecker that comes with Wordperfect, I found the following: Connoisseurs.
When asked if he were a connoisseur, he replied, “No, I live in the middle of the block.”[:)]
Johnny, thanks for that warning about my “wandering ‘I’ !”
I knew it’d get me in trouble…
Wayne
Uh-huh–did Lady Firestorm catch you?[(-D]
Not this time, thank God! The “Mistress of the Reader’s Digest Word Power Quiz” would have given me unmitigated hell for a mispelling like that.
Mind you, she’s fit to be tied when I BEAT her at “Word Power!” Hee, hee, hee…