oddments

    Three random items.

    'Artefect'. I could have kicked myself as soon as
    I pressed the Send key. I was thinking of something
    like an old pot dug up in the back garden. By 'neutral',
    I meant it could be used for boiling a cabbage or a human
    head. Instead of 'non-human' I should have written
    'anonymous' - meaning that on the spectrum where
    we measure the amount of recognisable input from
    a particular individual, it was more towards the plastic
    bag end than the Grecian urn.

    C. S. Lewis. I couldn't STAND those wimpish
    Narnia Chronicles. Nor could any of my descendents.
    I did, however, read the Screwtapes & the Problem of Pain
    during my deeply spiritual adolescence. It's simply beyond
    me that anyone could regard these Christian tracts as open
    to a significant variety of interpretations - & that old Cecil
    would have found that perfectly OK.

    4000 colleges. Not for one second did I doubt your statistic, Jim.
    It was the awesome, Babel-like enormity that 'gave me pause'
    (as in, 'stopped me in my tracks', 'made me catch my breath'
    - much the commonest usage among Anglophones.)

    Scottie B.

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