"The Art of Looking Sideways" [.]

The I-don't-care scale:
* 2 jots   = 1 tittle
* 3 tittle  = 1 continental
* 2 continentals = 1 tinker's dam
* 4 tinker's dams = 1 damn

A rumpus of shapes,  A madder of painters,
A slant of journalists,  A drag of queens
A jam of tarts/ A flourish of strumpets/A essay of Trollope's'/A peal of Jezebels'

* the pooh-pooh theory 
* Burma-Shave signs 
* Hofstadter's grid fonts

* Headline: 'Iraqi head seeks arms'
* Dennis Potter: The trouble with words, is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.

* Style is the particular in spite of the general.
* We like things for what they represent, not for what they are. A distinction confirmed by the statistic that the person you love in 72.8% water.

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