{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "From a BBC interview with a retiring Oxford Don:", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/179974330962/", "html": "<p><a href=\"http://eka-mark.tumblr.com/post/2566344195/from-a-bbc-interview-with-a-retiring-oxford-don\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">eka-mark</a>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Don:  \u201cUp until the age of 25, I believed that \u2018invective\u2019 was a synonym for \u2018urine\u2019.\u201d</p>\n<p>BBC:  \u201cWhy ever would you have thought that?\u201d</p>\n<p>Don:  \u201cDuring my childhood, I read many of the Edgar Rice Burroughs  \u2018Tarzan\u2019 stories, and in those books, whenever a lion wandered into a  clearing, the monkeys would leap into the trees and \u2018cast streams of  invective upon the lion\u2019s head.\u2019\u201d</p>\n<p>BBC:  long pause \u201cBut, surely sir, you now know the meaning of the word.\u201d</p>\n<p>Don:  \u201cYes, but I do wonder under what other misapprehensions I continue to labour.\u201d</p>\n</blockquote>"}