sixty four meanings for noun, set, seventeen are labelled obsolete
According to the Online Oxford English Dictionary.
Sometimes, we would go upstairs to the room where he worked, just the two of us, and go through his O.E.D. together. He was proud of that handsome set . . . ‘set’ — that word has one of the longest entries in the O.E.D., fifty four columns of nouns, verbs, adjectives, I think. That was what fascinated Thurber. I would read him the ‘set’ definitions for hours on end.
From Thurber : a biography by Burton Bernstein (Dodd, Mead, New York, 1975).
what if James Thurber sketched Pablo Picasso from life … what would he have seen?
Thurber in 1939 was half blind and Picasso was, well, Picasso.
I can wonder, how did Thurber see him?
Happy to say that for the New Yorker profile, One Man Group, written by Janet Flanner about Mr. Picasso we know what it would look like and here it is.
Here is how it appeared in the New Yorker …
I am reminded of Gertrude Stein telling Mr. Picasso that his portrait of her did not look like her …
most travel, lot of expatriate life under heading “trespassing”
There is also an existential, parasitical, rootless quality to being an expatriate, which can be dizzying:
You are both somebody and nobody, often merely a spectator.
I always felt in my bones that wherever I went, I was an alien.
That I could not presume or expect much hospitality, that I had nothing to offer except a willingness to listen, that wherever I was, I had no business there and had to justify my intrusion by writing about what I heard.
Most travel, and a lot of expatriate life, can be filed under the heading “Trespassing.”
From the article, “The Hard Reality American Expats Quickly Learn” by Paul Theroux in the New York Time, Jan. 5, 2025.
There is no there there and there is no way out of here.
in your guts you know … he’s nuts made rosalynn laugh – they still got the last laugh
Back in 2016, my wife and I took a side trip out from Atlanta and visited Plains, Georgia and it was very plain.
And very plainly the birthplace and current home of President Jimmy Carter.
There was one very odd souvenir store that featured years … no, decades … of political memorabilia.
I was able to pick up a button from 1976 Ford vs. Carter but my wife was attracted to an anti Trump button that proclaimed, “IN YOUR GUTS YOU KNOW HE’S NUTS” with a picture of the Donald.
The odd guy who owned and ran the place maintained a running conversation with us the entire time we were in there.
When we got up to the cash register he looked at my wife’s button and laughed.
“The Carter’s were in here last week,” he said, “That one made Rosalynn laugh.”
Mr. Carter died yesterday at age 100.
That Mr. Carter did not like Mr. Trump is well known.
That Mr. Carter expressed a desire to live long enough to vote against Mr. Trump is also well known.
With his passing yesterday, all flags will be at half staff for the next 30 days which includes the January 20th inauguration day of Mr. Trump.
after receiving clarification pleased the Bible’s available
“Following the passage of House Bill 900, Canyon ISD conducted a comprehensive review of library materials to ensure compliance with updated state guidelines. After receiving clarification from Representative Patterson regarding library content, we reevaluated the guidelines and are pleased to have the Bible available in each of our Canyon ISD libraries.”
Statement from the Canyon (Texas) Intermediate School District to rescind the decision to remove the Bible from the school district libraries based on restrictions outlined in House Bill 900 (Restricting Explicit and Adult-Designated Educational Resources (Reader) Act.)
Lucky for them, Representative Patterson, the author of the bill, was able to explain that the bill DID NOT include banning the Bible.
Never real thought that the Bible needed helpers like that.
I do so very badly want to contact the Mr. Patterson and the school district to ask which versions and or translations of the Bible are allowed.
Would an inclusive language New International Translation be welcome?
