The World of Dr. Justice: travel

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Sunday, May 19, 2019

Horizon Sighting

Seen afar off, a mountain,

whelmed in cloud.

-- Robert Louis Stevenson, In the South Seas (1896)

Monday, November 10, 2014

Last Leg of the Journey

An airplane, high above,

jetting off to somewhere --

How I used to yearn!

By now, I’ve been there,

or places much like them.

The terrain still to explore lies …

here.

About the Author

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.