Borrowable

The corresponding rise in bank savings is, of course, beneficial to the government in its search for borrowable funds.

With Sofia gone, the books and other borrowables were now moved back to the rear room and the neighbors were again invited to lounge in both rooms of the apartment.

This isn’t a book of formulas, but there are lots of “borrowables” in it. As you read these teachers’ story, you’ll be doing your own planning of possible curriculum; alert teachers do that all the time. You may think, “I wouldn’t do that.” Or you may think, “Oh, that’s a good idea,” and try it with the children you teach.

It’s so unoriginal it bores me and how, more than disappointment or sorrow at humanity’s antics, it must bore God. All this stuff we find so important, absorbing, exciting and maddening. […] Rage at unreturned borrowables.