“The complexity of language, he thought to himself, lies not in its subject matter but in our knotted understanding.” — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in the world, as a language develops and acquires names for color, the colors always enter in the same order. The… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
“...we are willing to lose ourselves in another as we exchange fates with one whom we love but on whom our heart is nevertheless… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
Adultery is the vice of equivocation. It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread together like… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
The particular source of frustration of women observing their own self-study and measuring their worth as women by the distance they kept from men… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck skin, butter,… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time. — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing. — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
“. . . it is called 'camel case' or 'intercapping' -- of writing small letters next to large in the same word, as in… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging. — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
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