Are you hungry?

A famished initial letter in a 12th-century manuscript, BnF MS Latin 116, 2, f.57v via @GallicaBnF and @red_loeb, with my thanks.

I’m not a herbivore, carnivore, omnivore. Or even an avivore, eater of birds, like the medieval initial above.

I am glossophage. I eat words. I devour them. For the better or for worse. I eat them too quickly, too soon, too slo…