Language Liberalism Freethought Birds Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds. Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is in the wrong. There is no other time. The church says Earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence in a shadow than the church. If we can't find Heaven, there are always bluejays.
Sunday, April 12, 2015
The Week in Entertainment
All I did was read this week - Heartache, the latest 20-Sided Sorceress book; the author said she "was angry, but now I think I understand what they felt" - "all the authors that ever made me cry" - especially "Joss Whedon, the worst offender". Let me tell you, she really took a leaf out of Joss's book with this one. Also read her Witch Hunt which was really much less good, kind of blah, in fact. Also Donna Leon's Falling in Love, a Brunetti novel and good. The Language of the Dead, which was a good mystery but oddly, even irritatingly, written; I don't know if that's the author or the translator.
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