Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity.
I don't understand what that means. What is coin and what is serendipity?
I was good - not perfect but I did everything right except cake. I only had a little bit. Cakes are smaller these days. One day I will make a cake and eat the entire thing. I will. It will be lovely.
Big roast last night. Not too hungover, amazingly.
O
I don't understand what that means. What is coin and what is serendipity?
Serendipity means a "fortunate happenstance" or "pleasant surprise". It was coined by Horace Walpole in 1754. In a letter he wrote to a friend Walpole explained an unexpected discovery he had made by reference to a Persian fairy tale, The Three Princes of Serendip. The princes, he told his correspondent, were “always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of”.
I was good - not perfect but I did everything right except cake. I only had a little bit. Cakes are smaller these days. One day I will make a cake and eat the entire thing. I will. It will be lovely.
Big roast last night. Not too hungover, amazingly.
O
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