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John William Tuohy lives in Washington DC

Jack Kerouac, On The Road

“I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn’t know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I’d never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn’t know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn’t scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.”  Jack Kerouac, On The Road
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Stories


“I MEAN, MOST PEOPLE WANT TO ESCAPE. GET OUT OF THEIR HEADS. OUT OF THEIR LIVES. STORIES ARE THE EASIEST WAY TO DO THAT.”



Word origins



Scavenge is a derivative of scavenger, which appeared in English in the early 16th century. Scavenger is an alteration of the earlier scavager, itself from Anglo-French scawageour, meaning "collector of scavage." In medieval times, scavage was a tax levied by towns and cities on goods put up for sale by nonresidents in order to provide resident merchants with a competitive advantage. The officers in charge of collecting this tax were later made responsible for keeping streets clean, and that's how scavenger came to refer to a public sanitation employee in Great Britain before acquiring its current sense referring to a person who salvages discarded items.

The first meaning of the word yen was an intense craving for opium theEnglish term evolved from the Cantonese yīn-yáhn, which itself combines yīn, meaning "opium," and yáhn, meaning "craving." In English, the Chinese syllables were transformed to yen-yen and ultimately abbreviated to simply yen. Eventually, yen was generalized to the more innocuous meaning of "a strong desire," and the link to drug cravings was lost.

In Middle English, to "disparage" someone meant causing that person to marry someone of inferior rank. Disparage derives from the Anglo-French word desparager, meaning "to marry below one's class."

Sabotage comes from the French word saboter  which means to walk noisily, to botch, from sabot (wooden shoe).



Wonderful libraries



“LIBRARIES REALLY ARE WONDERFUL. THEY’RE BETTER THAN BOOKSHOPS, EVEN. I MEAN BOOKSHOPS MAKE A PROFIT ON SELLING YOU BOOKS, BUT LIBRARIES JUST SIT THERE LENDING YOU BOOKS QUIETLY OUT OF THE GOODNESS OF THEIR HEARTS.”

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"MY POINT IS, IT TAKES A SPECIAL PERSON TO CRY OVER A BOOK. IT SHOWS COMPASSION AS WELL AS IMAGINATION…DON’T EVER LOSE THAT"