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Le mot juste

About Me

And the signifieds butt heads with the signifiers, and we all fall down slack-jawed to marvel at words! While across the sky sheet the impossible birds, in a steady, illiterate movement homewards. ///Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le c,,ur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Champions of the liberal arts, Maritain fans, Bruce Wayne. Those who agree: tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.

My Blog

Wikipedia Says: How to eat an ortolan bunting

"You catch the ortolan with a net spread up in the forest canopy. Take it alive. Take it home. Poke out its eyes and put it in a small cage. Force-feed it oats and millet and figs until it has swollen...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 22:03:00 GMT

Green Zone?

February 5, 2007 Op-Ed Columnist The Green-Zoning of America By PAUL KRUGMAN One of the best of the many recent books about the Iraq debacle is Rajiv Chandrasekaran's "Imperial Life in the Emerald C...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:32:00 GMT

since feeling is first

since feeling is firstwho pays any attentionto the syntax of thingswill never wholly kiss you;wholly to be a foolwhile Spring is in the worldmy blood approves,and kisses are a far better fatethan wisd...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:16:00 GMT

sic semper tyrannis

"It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutiona...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Feb 2006 08:11:00 GMT

A Public Service Announcement

Dear Boston City Council, and MA State Legislature: The city suffers from a drought.  I cannot get a beer for less than $4.75, making it more economical for me to trek to NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE fo...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Jul 2005 22:01:00 GMT