Words. Words about words. Words about copyediting. The occasional cultural observation.
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"awfully adjectival"
I’m making a happy journey through Thornton Wilder’s first novel, The Cabala (1926), which narrates a young American scholar’s adventures in Italy, particularly among the nearly eponymous cabal,1 “a kind of group living around Rome.” As the...
"like the corners of my mind"
I used to think that the first line of “The Way We Were” ran “Memories, like the corners of my mind,” which makes absolutely no sense,1 but once you’ve made a decision about something, if you are I, you tend not to ever rethink it till some...
summer reruns
Though I have some qualms about directing business there, I apparently don’t have enough of them, and I note that, as I type these words, Amazon is virtually giving away the hardcover of Dreyer’s English, and you can always repurpose the sa...
"oh, these parties, these parties!"
From here to there, and now we are done.
Here, then, “The Garden-Party,” v2.
And after all the weather was ideal. They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it. Windless, warm, the sky witho...
"isn't life—"
Thank you again for stringing along with me during this just-concluded “Garden Party” adventure. As promised, I will certainly return in a few days, after I’ve let my brain cool down a bit, with my daydream of a post-copyedited version of t...
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