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The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my…
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Words have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbits and enter a wider magnetic…
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Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming…
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Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and…
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There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of…
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Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that…
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If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.
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If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room.
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