December 2011
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Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They drink. They leave.
– Erik K. Auld, “Seven Bar Jokes Involving Grammar and Punctuation.”
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This is what we want. This is all that we can do.
– Dave Eggers
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In 20-30 years, one of the hardest things our kids will have to do will be...
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a...
– Red Smith
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Ash Has Been Falling On Me For Far Too Long
Ash has been falling on me for far too long. That is, I’ve been too long in the dark. I’ve been sucking up the ground and rearranging it in my mouth, running it through my teeth to filter out the dirt, taking with it the footsteps we have walked, the oceans we have swam - nothing escapes me in this state of critique. Nothing furnishes my mind the way sucking the ground does.
I stick...
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