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Word of the Day – Artifice

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  • Noun: Artifice
    1. clever or artful skill :  ingenuity
    2. an ingenious device or expedient
    3. an artful stratagem :  trick
    4. false or insincere behavior <social artifice>
  • Synonyms:
    1. Trickery
    2. Deceit
    3. Deception
    4. Duplicity
    5. Guile
    6. Cunning
    7. Artfulness
    8. Wiliness
    9. Chicanery
  • Usage:

“The queen, although astonished at this language, to which she was not accustomed from her courtiers, argued from it a happy omen of the zeal with which D’Artagnan would serve her in the accomplishment of her project. It was one of the Gascon’s artifices to hide his deep cunning occasionally under an appearance of rough loyalty.”

  • Encountered:

While reading Twenty Years After by Alexandre

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Vanity Plate for the Day – GRNCH

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This one was on a Hyundai of some ilk.  Block up your fireplace, hide your Christmas stockings…

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Quote for the Day – Neil Gaiman

neilgaiman“I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn’t mean anything? What then?”    ~~ Neil Gaiman

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Word of the Day – Succubus

  • Noun: Succubus
    1. A female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men.succubus_by_d3vilusion-d7k7bbd
    2. Any demon or evil spirit.
    3. A strumpet or prostitute.
  • Synonyms:
    1. Beast
    2. Monster
    3. Vampire
    4. Villain
  • Usage:

 “He was like a worn small rock whelmed by the successive waves of his voice. With his body he seemed to feed the voice that, succubus like, had fleshed its teeth in him.”

  • Encountered:

While reading The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

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Quote for the Day – Joseph Heller

Josephy Heller, Miami Bookfair International, 1986

“Everyone agreed that Clevinger was certain to go far in the academic world. In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out.”  ~~ From Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

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Quote for the Day – Joseph Heller

Josephy Heller, Miami Bookfair International, 1986

“There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn’t have to; but if he didn’t want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. ~~ From Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

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Vanity Plate for the Day – OHGIRL

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This one was on a SUV with Ohio tags…obviously a proud Buckeye.  Alternatively we could go with “Oh girl…”

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Quote for the Day – John Steinbeck

AVT_John-Steinbeck_6088“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”  ~~ John Steinbeck

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Vanity Plate for the Day – DOGGRL

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This one was on a Toyota RAV4… Canines rule her world, I am assuming it is not an expression regarding her looks!  Or I suppose they could be into really bad poetry.

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Quote for the Day – Gilbert K. Chesterton

194px-Gilbert_Chesterton“Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged”. ~~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
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