Since I have got myself a high-quality black and white laser printer. I think I'd better make the full use of it.
Right now, I have been using it to print out the materials that I need to improve my English reading and widen my horizon of the world, such as the segments from The Economist, US news, The Guardian and so forth, all of which are ideal reading materials to add the muscle to my English proficiency prowess.
My next step is to use it to print out my reading notes. Assorted notes that captures all the well-crafted sentences and inspiring ones as well as my own piece of brain of it.
My target book now is the Reading the OED which is a work of an American writer. I found this book so intriguing and the author so charming and congenial at the moment I met it.
The thing that I like the most about the book and the author is that sentences from the author would never make you feel that he is such a pretentious, quite the contrary, though there's a lot of chances that you would run into some words that can be rated as non-star in the Collins Dictionary, you could still get the gargantuan sense of the humbleness and humility of the author. That's really a piece of a work. But to a person who feeds on reading all kinds of dictionaries, archaic dictionaries, colloquialisms and other professional-term books, it just couldn't be more normal.
I take the author as one of my mentors in the milieu of English. I hope I could imitate him, or even some day, be able to emulate him.
However, after the first hour of trail, I found it highly impossible for me to input all those golden sentences onto the screen, because there're just simply too many of them, too many things that I wish I could archive perpetually in my mind. But just as Sheldon said, "If I can, I would, but I can't, so I shan't". I can't, at least without constant effort of reading them all over and over again. Memory is a trick and twisty device, it seems like that it has an automatic storage life for everything within its grip.
To continue, or not to continue this undertaking. That's a problem...I'm afraid I have to sleep on it then.
I'll end today's log with a quote from the author of the OED: "If you are interested in vocabulary that is both spectacularly useful and beautifully useless, read on, and enjoy the efforts of a man who is in love with words. I have read the OED so that you don’t have to."
What a beautiful man with a nerve of steel.
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