Deborah Tannen, PhD That’s NOT What I MEANT! pg 129 The situation he depicted is something like the practical joke that can be played using a dual-control electric blanket. If you reverse the controls, the first attempt by either person to make an adjustment will set off a cycle of worsening maladjustment – I…
Month: February 2010
of the beginning of days
J.R.R. Tolkien The Simarillion pg 41 Now all is said concerning the manner of the Earth ad its rulers in the beginning of days, and ere the world became such as the Children of Iluvatar have known it. For Elves and Men are the Children of Iluvatar; and since they understood not fully that…