23.10.12

Dictionary of Modern Times - intro and possible title page


The Sadoo wishes to slowly publish--at will (whatever that means) and at random (which seems more the will)--a dictionary of language as it might be written by a visitor from another world.  Here, in honour of a certain past visitor, might be the title page.

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DICTIONARY
of
Modern Times:

in which
The WORDS are deduced from their FLEETING CONTEXTS,
and
ILLUSTRATED in their DIFFERENT SIGNIFICATIONS
by
NARRATIONS and other MEANS from the best IMAGINATIONS.
To which are prefixed,
A BRIEF HISTORY of the DICTIONARY,
and A NOTE ON METHOD.
Assembled by The Consortium of Consortionists,
of many degrees and inclinations
In VIRTUAL Volumes
in the early third millennium in the republic of the internet 

2 comments:

  1. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.

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  2. This, I believe in Johnson's monumental dictionary, is the fourth definition of "taciturn."

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