this web site is a kind of junk box for words that have been gushing out of me and piling up around me for over sixty years; they've fallen into various heaps, in two main sprawls; on one side are the words that really exist (historical research and writing), on the other side are words that don't (creative writings); incongruous I know, but accumulated clutter has no logic and tidying is a drag, and anyway, in the immortal words of stan laurel, life isn't short enough