D is for Dickens, which is curious, since a daily dosage of vitamin D guards against developing rickets - and where would Dickens be without children suffering from rickets? Still revising Mr Pickwick, probably.
In the ancient world, the letter D - the lowest passing grade - was also the Hebrew sign "daleth", which was old Moses' word for door. Interestingly enough, then, that in Egyptian hieroglyphics D is represented by a hand - that isn't grasping a key. So no wonder these two great peoples never saw eye to eye.
The Roman numeral that means 500 of something, D is half of M yet twice B(-C)
Anyway, to my mind, D looks rather like an O that walked into one of those cartoon garden rakes and received a flattened face because of it.
Finally, D is a contraction of the words "could" and "would"; and so we can construct the following sentence: "I'd have written a better post if I'd have thought of anything else to say about this dreary letter."
Your self-deprecation notwithstanding (I don't know what that part of this sentence means,) this post about D has forever altered my perceptions. The comparison of D to an O with a rake-flattened face is both astute, earth-shattering, hair-raising, and worthy of at least a guffaw. I guffaw'd, in fact, right out loud.
(Note: "both," as used above, means nearly as much as that first thing I typed about notwithstanding and deprecation and whatever.)
Posted by: i, squub | December 03, 2004 at 09:48