Carked into Katabasis
Trekked up to the library today, found The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary.
I'm all the way up to page two when I run across a word I've never heard: louche.
Now, maybe you guys are all sophisticated, worldly, and smart as whips, but not me; so, I pull out the trusty Webster's Twentieth Century Dictionary: Unabridged, thinking maybe I'll try to educate myself as I work my way through The Professor and the Madman.
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I'm all the way up to page two when I run across a word I've never heard: louche.
Now, maybe you guys are all sophisticated, worldly, and smart as whips, but not me; so, I pull out the trusty Webster's Twentieth Century Dictionary: Unabridged, thinking maybe I'll try to educate myself as I work my way through The Professor and the Madman.
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