Biwrixle: To change, transform.
Sir James Murray’s New English Dictionary, 1888
Years ago when it first came out in paperback in 1984, I read Morris Berman’s The Reenchantment of the World. There was a wonderful illustration on the cover of two human beings back to back. One was composed of metals and gear shifts [...]
A friend of mine was fond of this expression. He meant that he didn’t hide anything, that he was an open book. But actually he did hide things, as most of us do. Anyway, I see more in these words than I used to. My mind harkens back to the time [...]