“FV: Annandale defines 'definition' as "an explanation of the signification of a term." Yet Oxford, on the other hand, defines it as "a statement of the precise meaning of a word." A small, perhaps negligible difference you might think. And… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“Don't most astrophysicists now predict some "end of the line" - an end to it all? Not just the death of things, but the annihilation of everything. Some great contraction, or collapse. Or, perhaps, some vast dissipation into eternal emptiness. Maybe it's all swallowed up by an immense black hole, which then swallows itself. But, whatever the case, their extinction… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share
“FV: Hasn't all art, in a way, submitted to words - reduced itself to the literary...admitted its failure through all the catalogues and criticism,… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“Don't you find it odd that two of the foremost symptoms of insanity are the hearing voices and talking to oneself? Is it any… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“There's actually a sort of comfort in the belief that things can only get worse. It gives one an appreciation for the here-and-now, knowing… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“We know there are colours in the spectrum untranslatable to our eyes; sounds beyond the range of our hearing; sensations beyond the tolerance of… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“The topics which language limits us to aren’t much worth discussing in the first place. (attrib: F.L. Vanderson)” — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“Isn't one of the first lessons of good elocution that there's nothing one can say in any rambling, sprawling rant that can't, through some… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“The problem with living forever, of course, is you have to live forever before you know you're immortal...or invincible. Even the gods, in this… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“FV: Annandale defines 'definition' as "an explanation of the signification of a term." Yet Oxford, on the other hand, defines it as "a statement… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“Those who can't, and can't teach, translate. (attrib: F.L. Vanderson)” — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“Anything you try to quantify can be divided into any number of "anythings," or become the thing - the unit - itself. And what… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
