Thursday, February 26
“ My dear W — You really did miss your vocation. You were born to be a commentator explaining what every reader understands and keeping silence about difficulty. Now, let’s understand one another. I was not puzzled as [to] how daigner cd. mean deign, but as to how je le daigne cd. mean je ne le daigne pas. Got it, blockhead?
• C. S. Lewis to his brother Warnie, at the beginning of the letter excerpted in my previous post.
