RANDOM MUSINGS FROM THE TOP OF THE HILL

3/15/2009

IDES

Quoth the soothsayer, "Beware the Ides of March!" In 44 B.C., this prognostication fell on Julius Caesar's deaf ears and Brutus laid him low with a snickersnee according to my friend Billy Shakespeare.

New or seldom used words can snap you out of your acedia but take the risk of obfuscating you. Absorb one into your personal lexicon every day and you'll see the world more lucidly. I, for one, strive for perspicuousness. Can those friends of mine who are addicted to the Pathwords game on facebook, really claim to have increased their vocabulary?
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