a sliverlike fragment of bone
I'm not playing the role of the hard-headed tycoon who thinks all philanthropoids are Socialists and all university professors are Communists.
When Grace was a baby, I would sit tensely in a roomful or a playgroundful of other women and their children, listening to the low rumble of debate, the judgments passed, the disapproval masquerading as a question or even as admiration ([…]), and the uneasiness and fear and even panic I could hear just underneath what everybody said ([…]), every mother implicitly criticizing whatever anybody else was doing if it were even the least bit different from what she was doing – since doing things differently was an implicit criticism of her way.
The first practical constructed language was the south-west German Pastor Schleyer's Volapük from 1879; its complicated grammar and irregular vocabulary made learning difficult, however. The most successful has been Esperanto, devised by the Warsaw ophthalmologist Ludwig Zamenhof in 1887, that today can count some one million speakers.
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