Sublime

aristocracy. Lumberjacks by day, conductors of the philharmonic

The metamorphosis from rash young newbie to jaded old-timer had happened slowly.

Many of his tracts were written in German rather than in the Latin of the learned. These, combined with his efforts to translate the Bible into a language intelligible across the wide variety of dialects that stretched from the Netherlands to Poland, accelerated the birth of a modern German capable of serving as a language of culture.

the word OK was “born as a lame joke perpetrated by a newspaper editor in 1839.” In short, it’s an abbreviation for “all correct,” and a cool trend at the time—because what else was there to do for fun in 1839?—was to base abbreviations on misspellings or alternate spellings; in this instance we’re talking about “oll korrect.”

The bigger the meme, the better.

synecdoche

The Evergreen Review first published Rechy’s and Selby’s writing; and Olympia Press’ Travelers Companion series published Burroughs’ Naked Lunch and The Ticket that Exploded, William Talsman’s The Gaudy Image, and Parker Tyler and Charles Henri Ford’s notorious underground classic The Young and the Evil, as well as Jean Cocteau’s The White Paper, O

ecclesiastical

“Okay. Does anyone understand Sumerian?” “Yes, at any given time, it appears that there are roughly ten people in the world who can read it.” “Where do they work?” “One in Israel. One at the British Museum. One in Iraq. One at the University of Chicago. One at the University of Pennsylvania. And five at Rife Bible College in Houston, Texas.” “Nice