Brian Gets Insanely Picky

JB,

Just  got  your  letter. Thank you but  I’m  afraid I must  get  all  weird on you. 

To quote a favorite book of mine:

“Distinctions Worth Making

anxious and eager

Famous last stand of the language purists: You're not anxious to spend a languorous  evening  with your  oldest  married  friends,  you're  eager  to   spend it. Unless, that is, you've been  sleeping  with  one of  them the past  three months. Then you’re anxious.”

An Incomplete Education

by Jones/Wilson

Obviously, such distinctions are the results of deranged fixations. Rest assured all my other manias are less annoying.

Brian Hardy,

(Who is also weird about ‘dock’ and ‘pier’ But doesn’t have a clue what ‘languorous’ means.)