Friday, July 31, 2009

ineffable words

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About a year ago Uglier Than a Monkey's Armpit, a book on untranslatable insults, put-downs and curses from around the world, was publi...
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Thursday, July 30, 2009

why the nhs looks like a friend in need

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Kwak’s parenthetical about how insurers can’t examine applications before they’re approved on the grounds that that would be “impractically ...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

easily bored

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Before the Revolution, Danton was doing well; he was not one of the people with nothing to lose. He had a wife, a comfortable home, and an e...
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sans phones, sans tables, sans chairs, sans all

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[yes. the HTML is up the creek.] From Self-Divider, a translation of Haruki Murakami's afterword to Norwegian Wood for the Korean editio...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

why does no one lash out at rave reviews? discretion is the better part, but still

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One thing that does emerge from all of this: is it appropriate for artists to respond to reviews? I sort of think yes, because reviews, like...
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Saturday, July 25, 2009

Does he play multi-coloured 2 diamond? I think we should be told

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Malcolm Gladwell (I know, I know) on the psychology of overconfidence, courtesy of Languagehat : Jimmy Cayne grew up in Chicago, the son of ...
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debt collection

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Bailiffs are not, you might suspect, a group for which society has a particularly high esteem. We have an image of them as being thugs who t...