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The Dictionary.com Word of the Day for May 17 is "arrant"; one of the
four citations of its use is the familiar passage from Timon of Athens:
"The moon's an arrant thief,/ And her pale fire she snatches from the
sun."
Earl Sampson
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Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it
wishes to be art.
- Donald Barthelme
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four citations of its use is the familiar passage from Timon of Athens:
"The moon's an arrant thief,/ And her pale fire she snatches from the
sun."
Earl Sampson
--
Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it
wishes to be art.
- Donald Barthelme
Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
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