Article: Puttenham, Shakespeare, and the abuse of rhetoric. (George Puttenham; William Shakespeare)

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater the distance

from which it looks back.

--Karl Kraus, Riddles Out of Solutions

Around the turn of the seventeenth century the English language saw a remarkable proliferation of words denoting the idea of separation: "discontinuity," "segment," "disjunct" and "disjunctive," "dissect," "analysis" and "analyse," "disparate," "distinctive," "distinguishable," "dividable" and "dividual," "discretive," "split," "separative" and "separator," "disunion," and "dichotomy," among others, are all cited by the OED as first occurring in the language between 1570 and 1610.(1) The surplus of terms ...

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