Ready-Made Phrases and the Lack of Faith
This invasion of one’s mind by ready-made phrases … can only be prevented if one is constantly on guard against them, and every such phrase anaesthetizes a portion of one’s brain. (George Orwell, Why I Write, “Politics and the English Language” at 117)
In a prior article, The Words of God: Precision’s the Thing, I used this […]
Site Update
Some months ago I took off the web counters from the blog pages because they were such a distraction. I, however, kept them running behind the scenes. This morning I checked on our Top Ten List and found that our podcasts have been downloaded over 33,000 times. That’s outstanding considering that we […]