Quote of the Week #5
“Vortimer lowered the spray of birch leaves that he held in his bridle hand, and sat for an instant lithe and haughty in the saddle, looking Ambrosius full in the face; and, watching him,...
Author: Twit
Word of the Week #4
I must go to Professor Chuffkin’s auction–I hear there is a delightful selection of chinoiserie. chinoiserie (noun) shin-wahz-REE 1. Anything reflecting Chinese culture: Chinese artifacts, designs, artistic styles, behaviour.
Quote of the Week #3
“Years ago my mother used to say to me, she’d say, ‘In this world, Elwood, you must be,’ — she always called me Elwood — ‘In this world, you must be oh so smart,...
Word of the Week #2
Petula was completely taken in by Clark’s blandiloquence. blandiloquence (noun) blæn-DIL-ê-kwens 1. Smooth talk, flattery.
Quote of the Week #1
“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarise the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.” –Toni Morrison
