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October 26, 2016 - August 25, 2023
"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn't only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms. After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other word? A word contains its opposite in itself. Take 'good,' for instance. If you have a word like 'good,' what need is there for a word like 'bad'? 'Ungood' will do just as well—better, because it's an exact opposite, which the other is not. Or again, if you want a stronger
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George Orwell...once upon a time though I tried reading him with pretended relish, now I read it with utmost sincerity and I realise today, pen are way mightier than swords. My bed mate for the next few days.
