A third installment of quotes from Dr. M.
Enjoy.
“That’s not as ponderous as it seems.”
“They were not among the winners, only among the quasi-winners.”
“Because it’s Latin! That’s just the way you do it!”
“It’s a bulbous structure in the history of language.”
“Remember the cats? Say ‘goodbye’ to the cats!”
“I could draw you another map, but I think I’ll project instead.”
“We could make it darker if you want.”
” ‘Sarmatia’ is a nebulous Roman word for ‘we don’t know what’s up there’.”
“Oh, natural light! Aren’t you excited?”
“Be happy: it’s prose.”
“No parentheses in poetry, unless you’re writing a very particular kind of poetry that allows for parentheses.”
“Anglo-Saxons didn’t orate to objects.”
“You all grew up in a different century; do you know that?”
“There’s not a lot of precision in the names of fish in ancient Anglo-Saxon English.”
“At your leisure, you may enjoy the rest of the story which involves a big fish and the king of Ninevah.”
“It’s hard to know what any war is really about.”
“When it becomes nighttime, it’s so hard to elicit excitement.”
“A particularly rich and ambiguous word–no, not ‘lexicographer’–is the word ‘credit’.”
“You get pictures with your listening tonight, but you can close your eyes if you want.”
Always a good time with Dr M quotes. Yay.
I was feeling a little melancholy – you know in that very “what is time” “what is it to be” abstract nonsensical kind of way – so I popped through my saved internet bookmarks to distract myself. Of course one of those stops it your blog. This blog. I re-read the quotes by Dr. M, as I find them very diverting, and was not disappointed. I was quite diverted! So thanks, for being weird enough to write down things that people say, and for then sharing those things. Now I’m going to unload the dishwasher – a task impossible to finish when one is melancholy, but done in a flash without even noticing when one is diverted.