“How Socratic is Somerset Maugham! What is virtue to him but a norm? So the best propaedeutic is a process maieutic, and all evil is merely bad form.”
—R. B. S. Instone, (via Futility Closet)
A deliciously erudite limerick.
I like words, and more, words that are used well. This is where I collect them. Most I come across in the works of other authors, but on occasion I find some in the wild myself.