January 2010
TOLKIEN WROTE THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY ENTRY...
THIS IS THE GREATEST THING I HAVE DISCOVERED ALL WEEK.
“Probably many of the other assistants were similarly talented, though sadly few today are remembered. One, however, is quite unforgotten: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, who worked under Bradley for one year, 1919, and is known today (though by the more formally British version of his name, J. R. R. Tolkien) by children of all ages, for...
“Anorak, from Greenland, is a word which, when introduced, described a...”
– The Meaning of Everything: The story of the Oxford English Dictionary, Simon Winchester
“Love is the key. Joy is love singing. Peace is love resting. Long-suffering is...”
– (via ithinkmusicmakesyouloveaperson) (via boxofalabaster)
“And since Shakespeare – and since William Hazlitt and Jane Austen, since...”
– The Meaning of Everything: The story of the Oxford English Dictionary, Simon Winchester
(This book is full of epic quotes)
“14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything...”
– 1 John 5:14-15 (New International Version)
“26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we...”
– Romans 8:26-27 (New International Version)
“The English language – so vast, so sprawling, so wonderfully unwieldy, so...”
– The Meaning of Everything: The story of the Oxford English Dictionary, Simon Winchester
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Joanna Newsom- On A Good Day/’81
My...
From "The Voyage of Ohthere," an Old English text
Fela spella him sædon þa Beormas ægþer ge of hiera agnum lande ge of þæm landum þe ymb hie utan wæron, ac he nyste hwæt þæs soþes wæs, for þæm he hit self ne geseah. Þa Finnas, him þuhte, & þa Beormas spræcon neah an geþeode. Swiþost he for ðider, to eacan þæs landes sceawunge, for þæm horshwælum, for ðæm hie habbað swiþe æþele ban on hiora toþum. Þa teð hie brohton sume þæm cyninge, &...
Do you ever get that feeling – that anxious feeling that sits in the back of your mind and sometimes jumps forward with a burst of agitation – that something great, something wonderful, is waiting just around the corner, if only you’d pick up your pen and write?
“After the initial pandemonium, book selection traditionally takes on a more...”
– The Courier Mail, 15/01/10
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