Dedication
Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
Full charactered with lasting memory.
Which shall above that idle rank remain
Beyond all date, even to eternity
—William Shakespeare, Sonnet 122
“When I use a word, “Humpty Dumpty
said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means
just what I choose it to mean—neither
more nor less.”
—Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
Lexicographer A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge
—Dr. Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language
To all keepers of the true relational flame
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