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.
Sunday, November 29, 2020
Hyperbolic aphorisms
Hyperbole is the quicksand of the aphorist, who would swallow the universe in a single sentence.
Steven G. Kellman, "Image Is Not Everything," American Scholar (Autumn 2019), p. 116, 117 (reviewing Benjamin Moser, Sontag: Her Life and Work)
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