A good vocabulary is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabulary of one's age-group. It comes from reading books above one.
-- J.R.R. Tolkien, 1959, Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien 298-99 (Humphrey Carpenter & Christopher Tolkien eds., 1981).
[Not that this really matters, but Dan and I weeded his grave.]
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Does this mean I should resume reading while lying on my back, holding the book in the air?
My chiropractor told me to stop doing that. Then again, what's more important, to have a good back or a good vocabulary?
Incertidude abounds; the ocean of my mind is teeming with irresolute minnows...
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