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Here is a Sup—I mean repository of the texts of my together with some readings of them. The essays were broadcast by WXXI 91.5 Classical of Rochester, NY on Salmagundy each Saturday at 9:35am Eastern Time, from the beginning of time (1985) till May 2009 when Entropa (evil Goddess of Change-for-the-Worse-or-Possibly-the-Worst) troubled the minds of the WXXIites and they retired Simon and Salmagundy, and Rochester went into a terminal decline---for ever.
I continued on that brilliant bastion of all that's good and kultured, WCLV's syndicated Weekend Radio on many (mainly NPRish) stations traditionally on the first and third weekends of the month, though weekendage varied, till the horror crept ever onward and that too was devoured (in August 2023, a date which will live in infamy or at lease mild irritation)... and only I remain, defiant though wimpering.
Richard Howland-Bolton
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This essay is entitled 'Foffif' and before I essay it, I probably ought to explain why. You see when I was little we had a 1785 (at least I THINK it was 1785---my parents still have it so I can't check the date just now, anyway it was an early) edition of Chambers' Cyclopedia.
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Do you know, the other day someone actually said to me "Ahh! It's always darkest before the dawn"? To me of all people! Now there was a mistake, and they very soon regretted it.
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I belong to one of those "Video of the Three-and-a-half-weeks" clubs. It's not a bad thing as long as you never delay in telling them exactly what to do with their so-called 'directors' cut', but in spite of that they seem to think I'm a good customer and they recently sent me what they called a "customer reward certificate"---the reward apparently being that I could give them more of my money.
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Arigato gozimasu!
Sumimasen---sorry, sorry I'm getting carried away here and all because I've started to attend a continuing ed. class to learn Nihon-go er Japanese. It is great fun and I'm learning a lot, but there is a serious down-side. Let me tell you about it because it's a good example of the dangers of impulse buying.
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Over here we seem to be having intense difficulty with what are known, in high-brow linguistic circles, as intensives: words or phrases that are used to intensify, or perhaps point out the importance of, something, as when you say "First of all". That "of all" means that whatever-it-is is really, really first rather than "neyh, sort of first-ish". That's why you can't really say "Second of all". Second just isn't that important, especially over here! You might as well say "twelfth of all", or "seventeenth of all"
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Something really odd happened the other morning-I listened to the BBC's World Service. Now I know that that in itself wasn't odd, well at least not odd for me. What was odd came in that segment where they tell you what the day's newspapers in various parts of he world are saying.
Among all the foreign papers they mentioned a couple of British ones---both commenting on the same event and so one right after the other. Again this might not strike you as too odd either, the British Broadcasting Company mentioning two British newspapers, Ah! but when they came to name the papers I was so shocked that I had to rush off to put finger to keyboard.
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