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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

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Danielle and Jessica very kindly made offers in the comments of a place to stay, each with a cat (which sounds just the thing to relieve the...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

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Since Zola, however, mental environmentalism has been stuck in a philosophical morass. To claim that advertising is metaphorically mental ...
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Friday, August 19, 2011

Newnewspeak

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Beyond the warped ingenuity of these Heath Robinson schemes to force ‘free’ competition to happen in closely controlled circumstances, such...
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Monday, August 15, 2011

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Readers of PP will be aware that Lightning Rods is coming out in October.  It looks as though I will be in New York from September 8 to 11 -...
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Sunday, August 14, 2011

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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(I was reminded of the fact that there are people who honestly believe that if a speaker of British English had a moment of extreme emotion...
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Thursday, August 11, 2011

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Kornél Esti and Haydn had one thing in common: he did not rail against his fate, he had the requisite sense of self-respect, but wasn't...

useful & cool (dulce et utile)

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I was playing around on Khan Academy (as one does).  As one does if one is unable to block out the world and write a book because unable to...
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Helen DeWitt
Helen DeWitt is author of The Last Samurai and Lightning Rods, and co-author of Your Name Here with Ilya Gridneff, an Australian journalist.
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