jordinn, 5 months ago to random Yesterday I fell in love with a preface. This is Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary, and it came into my hands via staff rec from #antigonebooks #bookstodon #IamReading #dictionary perfect personal dictionary would be concise and contain only either words that I don't yet know or ones that I frequently forget. My concise, infinite-as-ignorance dictionary would be something of a paradox and possibly printed on a Mobius strip. My impossible perfect dictionary. Let us dip into a preface and push it open with our thumbs as if we are splitting some kind of ripe fruit. (Opening a book is never anything like that though really, is it, and this simile is a bad one.) My perfect dictionary would open at a particular page because of the silk bookmark already lodged there. Two thousand five hundred silkworms are required to produce a pound of raw silk. What is the first word one reads at random on this page? [I have been sidetracked. Some words have a talent for will-o'-the-wispishly leading you from the path that you had set for yourself, deeper and deeper into the parentheses and footnotes, the beckoning SEE ALSO suggestions.] Exactly how many dictionary covers could one make by peeling a single cow? Who reads the prefaces to dictionaries, anyway? fnuck-fnuck-fnuck
Yesterday I fell in love with a preface. This is Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary, and it came into my hands via staff rec from #antigonebooks
#bookstodon #IamReading #dictionary
perfect personal dictionary would be concise and contain only either words that I don't yet know or ones that I frequently forget. My concise, infinite-as-ignorance dictionary would be something of a paradox and possibly printed on a Mobius strip. My impossible perfect dictionary. Let us dip into a preface and push it open with our thumbs as if we are splitting some kind of ripe fruit. (Opening a book is never anything like that though really, is it, and this simile is a bad one.) My perfect dictionary would open at a particular page because of the silk bookmark already lodged there. Two thousand five hundred silkworms are required to produce a pound of raw silk. What is the first word one reads at random on this page? [I have been sidetracked. Some words have a talent for will-o'-the-wispishly leading you from the path that you had set for yourself, deeper and deeper into the parentheses and footnotes, the beckoning SEE ALSO suggestions.] Exactly how many dictionary covers could one make by peeling a single cow? Who reads the prefaces to dictionaries, anyway? fnuck-fnuck-fnuck