commonplace book. n. Formerly Book of common places (see commonplace n. 3). orig. A book in which ‘commonplaces’ or passages important for reference were collected, usually under general heads; hence, a book in which one records passages or matters to be especially remembered or referred to, with or without arrangement.
OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 5 April 2015.
commonplace blog. n A commonplace book in a blog.
Friday, January 29, 2016
1945 German wonders about her German identity
"Who knows what they did? In my name. Sometimes I think I don't want to be German anymore. Isn't that terrible? Not wanting to be who you are. I don't want to know what they did."
Lena, in Joseph Kanon, The Good German (2001), p. 342
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