Tuesday, December 14, 2004

To those who say, "Huh?"

"My request that my writings be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once."
--Karl Kraus, Half-Truths and One and a Half Truths

It is easy now, with a dictionary.

More or less,
"There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for." Ib.

More meaning more, the less meaningless,
"It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean." Ib.

"In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct." Ib.

Seek and find the Word to find a mind,
"Let language be the divining rod that finds sources of thought." Ib.