The Bonfire of the Words

“If ideas are discarded when no longer modish, could we not do the same with unfashionable words?”

The Forgetting Shiraz

‘He wanted to forget the brutalities he’d seen, start a vineyard, a winery. The shiraz seemed an appropriate place to start.’

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