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“Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called ‘vague.’”
—J.L. (John Langshaw)

“Dead of a dark thing, John Holmes, you’ve been lost
in the college chapel, mourned as father and teacher,
mourned with piety and grace under the University Cross.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)