Reading Prefaces

Reading Prefaces

Here’s a quote from the Preface to Fowler’s Modern English Usage (the link is to the most recent edition, with the new title Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage): The mystery remains: why has this schoolmasterly, quixotic, idiosyncratic, and somewhat...
One of My Reference Books

One of My Reference Books

One of the books I am currently reading right now (or, more accurately, referencing) is Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest, by Ella Clark, initially published in 1953. It’s one of the books I have at home on the subject of Pacific Northwest Native American...

An Interesting Fact About Ravens

The raven is a symbol and a character (through the power of artificial intelligence and quantum computing) in the novel I’m writing. Because of this, I find myself running across interesting facts during my research on ravens. Here’s one: Did you know that a flock of...