word archaeology

[quasimodo1]

example: neck-verse: the verse read by a malefactor, to entitle him to "the benefit of clergy" [origin, a pardon for Latinate priests] and ergo eventually to save his spiritual life. The first verse of the 51st Psalm.

[optimisticnad]

im so confused.

Hang on....nothing new there!

[quasimodo1]

Dear optimisticnad: Your moniker is intrigueing. This work (the Unbearable Lightness of Being", could you give me a brief description and the date when it was written. Any old time. RJS

[quasimodo1]

warning: boring thread. let's try one more...running stationer, a seller of books, ballads, dying speeches and newspapers. Persons of this trade used to run with newspapers, blowing a horn, then they were called flying stationers, now extinct. RJS