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Dead hero

While I’m not inclined, as linguist John McWhorter has done*, to describe text messaging as “a miracle happening right under our very noses”, I do welcome new and intuitive forms of communication. Seriously. Bring on the new shades of meaning, too, I say, and the always entertaining mashup words like “freemium” and “celebutante”. Love those. Sometimes, […]

The old lie

“Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” translates “It is right and fitting to die for one’s country.” It’s from an ode by the Roman poet Horace that enjoyed heavy rotation during the first world war. It’s also the last line of a poem written about that war by Wilfred Owen in 1917 … Bent […]

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"The rules of the world had already changed when the Little People came out of the goat's mouth. Anything could happen after that."
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (Book 2, Chapter 19)
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