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The Right Word –
January 26, 2012 |
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The Right Word –
January 20, 2012 |
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The Right Word –
December 13, 2011 |
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The Right Word –
December 6, 2011 |
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The Right Word –
November 24, 2011 |
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The Right Word –
November 17, 2011 |
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The Right Word –
November 3, 2011 |
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The Right Word –
October 27, 2011 |
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October 20, 2011 |
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The Right Word –
October 13, 2011 |
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What a confetti that summer was, spent snipping invented words in Shakespeare. Occam's razor was at hand for painstakingly isolating those simplest inventions, the elegantly minimalist one-letter words. Hawthorne may have his scarlet letter, but Shakespeare's coinages are pure gold. The poet Geof Huth suggests that tiny expressions both surprise and justify, making ourselves vessels of concentration, inviting us to accept the mantle of makers of meaning. Thus attending to precision, "we become whom we are asked to become" (Geof Huth, " in tininess, we," June 22, 2009). The Shakespeare Papers dedicated an entire issue to one-letter words, and here's one of the pages we contributed. See our One-Letter Words: A Dictionary.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
May 11, 2009 |
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Enriqve Enriqvez turns every U into a V on his blog. Here's why: "Like the stvdent who devovrs covntless books on the tarot and still feels thirsty, the letter U has a blvnt edge. No matter how mvch information it holds, it is never ready to povr that knowledge back into the world."
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The Right Word –
December 17, 2008 |
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"The more gray and ordinary and undistinguished and commonplace the beginning of this novel is, the more you and the author feel a hint of danger looking over that fraction of 'I' that you have heedlessly invested in the 'I' of a character whose inner history you know nothing about." — Italo Calvino, If On a Winter's Night a Traveler
Sixteenth century illustration by Geoffroy Tory. --- Jeff writes: I can relate. How well do we know that other i, really?
Prof. Oddfellow writes: I learned the hard way that the other i's life is dotted with glamorous parties but also secrets and deceptions.
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