CJ> Some writer in the '40s and '50s used to do Q & A
 > "interviews" with a "Cliche Expert," who spoke in nothing but. . .
 JR> Reading a 'dictionary' of these, I begin to think that cliches are the
 JR> great uncovered wisdom of this civilization.
	Certainly something about them struck the popular mind,
 else they would not have become cliches.  I would think that a
 careful study of them would repay a writer, especially a stylist.
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