Mel, blogspot.com
The difference between belongings and possessions. The other day I was reading this interesting article about a project by Dutch photographer Niki Feijen to document abandoned houses. (The Daily Mail’s politics are rotten, but it is…
Today, I learned that a question mark (?) combined with an exclamation mark (!) is called an ‘interrobang’ (‽). Awesome‽ #punctuationiscool
Thanks to Dave Lull for passing along an interview with L.E. Sissman published in the Jan. 9, 1972, issue of Book World. The interviewer is Robert Lasson, identified in the tagline as “an ex-a …
Jim Culleny, 3quarksdaily.com
Lossiness
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I come upon a new term, lossiness,which is beautiful the way it slips over lipsand sums a feeling up
.To be lossy, to have kissed-off some part of beingto become apophatic in a small senseto define oneself by what’s leftin the…
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facebook.comPeter O’Toole plays the title role in a production of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ at the Old Vic, 1st September 1980.
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Greg Ross, futilitycloset.com
In 1856 Samuel Hoshour reflected that students might learn new words more easily if they were presented in context rather than in long gray lists of definitions. The result was Letters to Squire Pedant, an imaginary correspondence salted wi…
