Spoiler Alert?

Favorite Introductory Note of Thanks
(t least from a law review article that I've recently read):

"I have asked the editors not to make my citations conform to The Bluebook, and they have generously consented."

-- Richard A. Posner, in a note before his review of the 19th edition of The Bluebook.

Word on the Street

"I've never in my life been, like, so caught off . . . [long pause] . . . guard."

Roger Angell on the Brittanica's predicable shock

and "The Ship"

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/03/more-britannica.html#entry-more

" . . About a hundred detective stories have begun with the discovery that an American millionaire has been murdered, which is, for some reason, treated as a sort of calamity. "

                                                     G.K. Chesterton

"The mistake, the weakness at any rate, is perhaps to want to know what one is talking about.". -- Samuel Beckett 11/8/48

"I go to bars so that someone, the bartender, will occasionally ask "Are you all right?"'"

Cleanliness is next to ?

Roger Angell on the joys of looking things up in print:


An elementary-school teacher I know recalls a moment with a female sixth-grade student of hers who’d somehow botched the word “sophisticated” in a paper they were going over together and, when pressed, confessed that she didn’t really know what the word meant. “Why not look it up?” the teacher said, handing over a dictionary. The young woman leafed about, then paused, with her finger stabbing something on the page. “Hey!” she cried, her face alight. “Oh, wow, they’ve got ‘Snot.’”

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books#ixzz1pKkZ1jLl

Too Great to Quote

Album of the moment:  "Old Ideas"

More What It Was

She wore tight slacks the color of vanilla ice cream . . . .