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  • 'Source and origin'. (From Luciferous Logolepsy)

    June 9, 2008

  • "It was you who recommended that she come to me as a servant, was it not, Mr. Wood? You who are the fons et origo of my troubles with her?"

    —Iain Pears, An Instance of the Fingerpost (New York: Riverhead Books, 1998), 596

    October 16, 2008

  • JM wants to know the source and origin of 'fons et origo'

    February 16, 2009