Cracking day over Scotland, whats your plans today.
To begin with, continue in the often futile, poorly paid task of proof-reading and editing others' lapses. Had one the wings 'to slip the surly bonds of earth', then one would not care one iota for the pedant's revolt, but aspire to go 'up, up the long,delirious, burning blue', there to top 'the wind-swept heights with easy grace'.
(Thinks . . . if Grace was
that easy . . . would one be bothered raising up any sort of a prayer now?)
'The Pedant's Revolt'? -
Title of Andrea Barham's best selling guide. Subtitled - 'Why most things you think are right are wrong'.
