Instead of being the lost soul of a loner drifting aimlessly having a peripatetic wind, I'm now preferring something with more bite to it. As experience is just nature cruel way of giving the exams first followed by their lessons; you eventually reach a point where silence can no longer be contained no matter the cost.
SELECTED BLOG ARTICLES AS AN INTRODUCTION
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Saturday, December 3, 2016
QUONDAM - Saturday, December 03, 2016
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Definitions for quondam
former; onetime: his quondam partner.
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Citations for quondam
I was not mistaken,--there was my quondam friend, my traitorous foe, sitting at his ease, leaning comfortably back in one chair, his feet put up on another.Marie Corelli, Vendetta!; or, The Story of One Forgotten, 1886
His subtle title refers not only to the fervor of the late nineteen-sixties but, more searchingly, to the ideological compromises that quondam radicals have made in the past few years.James Wood, "Notes from the Underground," The New Yorker, March 3, 2008
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