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” and it’s hard to think of a verbal array whose structure better mimics both its subject and the larger text of which it’s part: precisely because, despite its exquisitely shaped adventure, the sentence finally fails to hold itself together.
Brian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
The questions of apostrophe placement regarding Harris and Walz are far from the most debated use of the punctuation mark, Mr. McCalden said. (That would be using orange’s instead of oranges.) But the discourse comes at a pivotal time for apostrophes: Thursday, Aug. 15, is International Apostrophe Day.
Ben Hickey • Is It Harris’ or Harris’s? Add a Walz, and It’s Even Trickier.
Seven times—four hows and three whats —the sentence invites us to anticipate a logically and artistically satisfying terminus
Brian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
Most significant to those of us interested in the Heroine’s Journey is that for a hero in a Hero’s Journey, a prevailing concept and perpetuated message is that asking for (or needing) help is BAD. Because a hero who asks for help is perceived as weak by the story
Gail Carriger • The Heroine's Journey
ideological thinking insists upon a ‘truer reality’, that is concealed behind the world of perceptible things.
Samantha Rose Hill • Hannah Arendt enjoyed her solitude, but she believed that loneliness could make people susceptible to totalitarianism
“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.” - George Orwell
So what would a prose literature devoted to illness sound like? Perhaps it could only exist in the form of the essay, of which genre Woolf’s opening sentence is both an elegant part-for-whole and a less than obvious parody.