Saying it rightSaying it right
“It don’t sound right if it ain’t said right.” — Bill Withers, Still Bill
Day: March 25, 2011
What it takesWhat it takes
“It takes very little to make a character: a few indications of idiosyncracy, of deviation from type, are enough, for our practiced eyes will make up the larger patterns of which such indications can be read as parts.” — Kermode, “Necessities of Upspringing”, The Genesis of Secrecy
Why lawyers sometimes talk so muchWhy lawyers sometimes talk so much
“Good deeds can be shortly stated, but where wrong is done a wealth of language is needed to veil its deformity.” — Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War, Ch. X (trans. Crawley)