Language can eclipse reality. The names we give things are useful as labels, but they also generalize and standardize till we no longer see the thing before us. Here is a horse, we think, and having identified it, we stop … Continue reading
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English Flavors I love to lick English the way I licked the hardround licorice sticks the Belgian nuns gave me for sixgood conduct points on Sundays after mass. Love it when ‘plethora’, ‘indolence’, ‘damask,’or my new word: ‘lasciviousness,’ stain my tongue,thicken … Continue reading