Summer? Is That Really You?
We’ve had grey day after grey day after grey day here. We’ve tried to sympathize with the crazy heat toppling the rest of the country, but we haven’t had a day above 24 degrees Celsius…
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MOTB Dress — Worth Waiting For?
Glancing at my stats for search words today, I was amused and a bit guilty to see that one or two folks are coming here looking for something about “Mother of the Bride dress.” Those…
View PostTwo Books on the English Language
Many of you who took a 1st-year English course — called something like Composition & Rhetoric or Writing for University — will perhaps remember working your way through an anthology of essays — to which…
View PostAll My Faces . . .
Lisa at AmidPrivilege wrote a probing, thoughtful post last Saturday on on-line personae and authentic selves. Of course, we in the post-structuralist, postmodern Humanities no longer believe in authenticity of the self anyway. But most…
View PostLionel Shriver’s So Much for That
I thought that Lionel Shriver’s So Much for That might make a hat-trick, withthese other two titles, of books I couldn’t finish. The rants of one particular character — against office and government bureaucracies, against taxes,…
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