April 13, 2023

Thought for the Day:

“It’s not entirely absurd to think that somewhere in the past of mankind someone, for the first time, did in his mind the equivalent of putting an adjective to a noun, and saw, not only a relationship, but this special relationship between two things of different kinds….In sum, all the seemingly complicated kinds of modification in English are just ways of thinking and seeing how things go with each other or reflect each other. Modifiers in our language are not aids to understanding relationships; they are the ways to understand relationships. A mistake in this matter either comes from or causes a clouded mind. Usually it’s both.”

― Richard Mitchell

Birthdays:

1743 Thomas Jefferson

1748 Joseph Bramah

1771 Richard Trevithick

1816 William Sterndale Bennett: Three diversions, op. 17 for piano 4 hands

1841 Louis-Ernest Barrias

1852 Frank Winfield Woolworth

1892 Robert Watson-Watt

1899 Alfred Mosher Butts

1949 Christopher Hitchens

1963 Garry Kasparov