Chapter 5
Bending Down
IN THIS CHAPTER
Talking about braking
Folding, wiping, and pressing forward
Punching down
Putting on the crown
Gauging the goods and laying it all out
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
— FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Sorry to break the news. She went broke. He went for broke. Give me a break. No, hit the brakes. They sat in the brake to break their fast. Break the bank. Break wind. Have a nervous breakdown. The happy couple drove around town in their shiny new brake until the horse bolted, breaking the axle. The farmer used a brake to plow the field; after a short break, he processed the harvest in his oversized brake.
Hey, don’t blame me — I didn’t invent the English language, and I’m a long way from mastering it. Brake and break are just two of the words many people either misspell or misuse, and with roughly 87 definitions for each (there was even the breaking wheel, a medieval ...
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