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Source Stan Carey in Sentence first: It’s a truism that language is integral to identity. So when our relationship with it changes, complications quickly accrue: Do we become someone different…
Source from here the atmosphere is space so vastits depth’s enough to spawn an echo, but seen from the moon imaginea somewhat fat elastic bandstretched round a blue ball,or slim…
This year marks the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death — which means it also marks the 701st anniversary of his great work the Divina Commedia, known in English as…
Source Emily Ziff Griffin at The New Yorker: February, 1991. The first night on the ship, I wore a cobalt velvet jacket with a shawl collar, stonewashed jeans, and a…
Source Scott Aaronson in Shtetl-Optimized: In one sentence, then, here’s my beef with The Chair: its script portrays a mob, step by step, destroying an innocent man’s life over nothing,…
Source my brain andheart divorceda decade ago over who wasto blame abouthow big of a messI have become eventually,they couldn’t bein the same roomwith each other
Source B.D. McClay at Lapham’s Quarterly: Still, where friendship operates as a code, it is still present as text. These stories are still “about” friendship, after all, and so friendship…
https://onezero.medium.com/how-data-science-pinpointed-the-creepiest-word-in-macbeth-3150995d3808 It’s not the word you’d expect — and it appears in this very sentence Macbeth is a creepy play. https://www.academia.edu/8108283/The_language_of_Macbeth Actors have long been superstitious about acting in it.…
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/07/12/reading-jane-eyre-as-a-sacred-text/ By Vanessa Zoltan July 12, 2021 Frederick Walker, A.R.A., Rochester and Jane Eyre, 1899. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The summer that I did my chaplaincy internship was a…