[Ads-l] suspect, adj.

[Jonathan Lighter]

So great minds do think alike.

JL

On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 6:12 PM, Benjamin Barrett
<mail.barretts at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 1 Jun 2016, at 11:18, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 8:02 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> "Feeling suspicion; suspicious."
>>>
>>> Retired general on CNN:
>>>
>>> "I was suspect then, and I continue to be suspect."
>>>
>>
>> Clearly, the OED is a Sisyphean effort. As a science-fiction author of the
>> '50's once noted - or quoted; I'm not up to getting serious about the
>> research, right now - "You can't even step into the same river *once*!”
>
> This was essentially also noted by Kamo no Chōmei in his famous essay “Hōjōki” of the thirteenth century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hōjōki.
>
> Benjamin Barrett
> Formerly of Seattle, WA
>
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