Quote of the day
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey.
Richard W. Bailey

Born: 1939
Died: 2011 (aged 72)
Bio: Richard Weld Bailey was an American linguist, scholar of the English language, and the Fred Newton Scott Collegiate Professor of English at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Known for:
- Images of English (1991)
- Nineteenth-century English (1996)
- English stylistics (1965)
- Rogue Scholar (2003)