“When I look back on my own conversion, I cannot credit a gospel tract or an altar call or an exposition of John 3:16. I had encountered these things many times over in childhood and had learned to mistrust them because of the lies my church in the fundamentalist South had told me. Rather, nature, [...]
“Like most writers who have been subjected to the editing process, [Thomas] Jefferson thought the final text [of the Declaration of Independence] depressingly inferior to his original, and, like most writers, he was wrong.” -Bill Bryson, Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
I need to be working on revising my thesis but I’ve been putting it off since finishing school. This is bad. I’m posting the final section of my thesis here along with the full text which you can download in the hope that you’ll help keep me accountable to work on this. Anyway, below is [...]
