The World of Dr. Justice: The Fall (and the Bastille)

Sunday, July 14, 2019

The Fall (and the Bastille)

My bride was to have been Susan Mary; but she arrived on Bastille Day, and her father, a WWII vet, decided she would be Suzanne Marie instead, in honor of our wartime allies.
Had she survived, she would have been sixty-seven years old today.
God rest her sweet soul.

[For an earlier post about the background of the day, try:
https://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2017/07/jour-de-la-bastille.html ]

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Pyesetz the DogJuly 31, 2019 at 6:10 PM
Condolences on your loss.
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David Justice studied French at the Sorbonne, mathematics and physics at Harvard and MIT, and math and linguistics at Berkeley. He is the author of The Semantics of Form in Arabic, in the Mirror of European Languages; and of the fictional works I Don’t Do Divorce Cases (which includes stories originally published in Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine) and Murphy on the Mount. He taught French at Berkeley, and linguistics at the University of Alberta, then worked at Merriam-Webster as Editor of Etymology (where he edited Webster’s Book of Word Histories) and as Editor of Pronunciation. He subsequently was editor-in-chief at Franklin Electronic Publishers. He is currently employed as a language analyst, and consultant for the University of Maryland. He lives with his bride of forty years, overlooking a peaceful lake.