September 2009
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On Language, 'Channeling' →
Without getting into my qualms with having William Safire, inexplicably, writing the Sunday Times Magazine’s language column, the latter half of his piece last week piqued my inside baseball sort of linguistic interest: poetic allusions in print. To wit,
Paul Krugman of The Times is doing his best to preserve the grand tradition of oblique poetic quotation. He recently wrote: “Right now Mr....
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“If boulevards aren’t too wide, like 9 de Julio in Buenos Aires, they can...”
– There’s not much new in David Byrne’s Perfect City, a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed that nonetheless is worth the click-through for a peak into the Talking Heads’ - well, head.
I had never before heard of his idea of a boulevard being too wide, however, and I’m intrigued. I’m...
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Just so we're clear
Asked of me on facebook:
I apologize if I am misunderstanding. But you are calling me a racist because I was born white? And you are implying that I perpetuate racism because I am living my life as a white woman?
Yes, and yes.
(I’m back.)