Bibliosmia

What a wonderful word – but what does it mean? Arising spontaneously or from an obscure or unknown cause
At the beginning of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee quotes Charles Lamb: “Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”
I said: “no it doesn’t”
“I like to play poker with politicians. They’re easy to beat. Sometimes in poker it’s smarter to lose with a winning hand so that you can win later with a losing hand. Politicians can’t accept that.” Havana (1990)