If Reluctant means 'not eager' does Luctant mean 'eager'? I was watching this show tonight and one of the bit parts was 'reluctant victim'. And I'm just thinking to myself...I need to find a girl who is, like, a luctant victim, y'know? But I would not want to grammatically err in doing so...
All authors secretly wish to be royalty. For when you criticize an essayist, you've committed a 'literary marvel', while when you criticize royalty you've committed 'sedition', 'treason', and 'one way path to a probably barbaric death'.
Why do we blame Einstein, Oppenheimer, et al for the horrors of the atomic bomb? Shouldn't the fault lie firmly on Democritus's shoulders? (I had to look up his name, you can file that under 'failures of the American education system'.)