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I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns, they... →
English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up... →
A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble telling which plants are weeds and which are my... →
According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.
Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.
The more you try to pin a word down, the more you realize that it has its own cape, sword and little hat.
I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind.
Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.
We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods.
I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word... →
I do some eccentric dancing.
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.
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