Commissioned Corps

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“He crafted his writing and loved listening to those tiny explosions when the active brutality of verbs in revolution raced into sweet established nouns to send marching across the page a newly commissioned army of words-on-maneuvers, all decorated in loops, frets, and arrowlike flourishes.”
—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)

“There was nothing to equal it in the whole history of the Corps Diplomatique.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)