Tigger’s up to no good!

Here’s a list of most of the words I was driven to look up while reading The Magus. Why am I posting it? Why else? Because it amuses me. cosh, page 17 quotidian, page 17 trammel, page 19 philhellene, page 45 caique, page 53 eponym, page 53 acroterion, page 60 amphora, page 106 kylix, page 106 ormolu, page 106 rhyton, page 106 mephitic, page 132 hieratic, page 139 batrachian, page 163 ferrule, page 164 fulsomely, page 165 paregoric, page 175 collation, page 180 peculating, page 180 algedonic, page 182 ortolan, page 183 immanent, page 244 exophthalmic, page 310 demotic, page…

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State. – Thomas Jefferson's interpretation of the first amendment in a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association (January…