Groping after self-improvement, I happened to read this : To set cross leg'd, or with our fingers pectinated or shut together is acco...

There are two ways that a sailing ship can sail. It can sail large , with the wind behind it and the sails bulging, bellying, billowing and...

Paracelsus was an alchemist, chemist, medic, and all-round egg-head of the sixteenth century. Paracelsus was not his real name of course: t...

A jobler is somebody who does small jobs. This means, I think, that one could jobble . One could spend Saturday afternoon jobbling , and no...

Yesterday a distressed damsel asked me why so many things were inexorable , and so few, so terribly few, were exorable . If you take inex...

Eskimos have no more words for snow than we do. The notion that they do is a myth , a mirage, and a cold white lie. They certainly don'...

In an idle moment, in an idle hour, during an idle life, I picked up a copy of  Open Skies, Closed Minds . It's by a civil servant who ...