Piled High & Deep
“The living language is like a cow-path: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it according to their whims or their needs. From daily use, the path undergoes change. A cow is under no obligation to stay.”—E.B. White (1899-1985), writer and wordsmith
(Thanks to alert WORDster Ann Berry)
(Thanks to alert WORDster Ann Berry)
Editor’s Note: And the path evolves as cows make their deposits along the way.....
E.B. White is one of my literary heroes. When he died in 1985, I wrote this column marking his passing for the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News.
Today’s Wish-I-Were-There photo
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On Feb 12, 2010, at 10:02 AM, Peter Galderisi wrote:
ReplyDeleteThere must be a special pasture for bureaucrats to go and dig.
Peez:
Not dig, wallow.
"So follow me, follow
down to the hollow,
and there we will wallow
in glorious, glorious ... academe...."
--Flanders & Swann