Anna B
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Anna B
It is a story difficult to put into words, this. I never tell it, in fact, or never have before. I told no one at the time, not my friends, not my family: there seemed no way to translate what had happened into grammar and syntax.
Maggie O'Farrell • I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
We inhabit, in ordinary daylight, a future that was unimaginably dark a few decades ago, when people found the end of the world easier to envision than the impending changes in everyday roles, thoughts, practices that not even the wildest science fiction anticipated. Perhaps we should not have adjusted to it so easily. It would be better if we were
... See moreRebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
On the other hand, illness makes us adventurers, in language and imagination; we are pleased to abandon concision and coherence. Above all, so it seems as “On Being Ill” starts to mimic the shape of its own beginning, illness frees us to fall back on the pillows and give up pretending to the logical progression of our thoughts.
Brian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
Interpreter of Maladies: On Virginia Woolf’s Writings About Illness and Disability
Gabrielle Bellotlithub.comThe Associated Press Stylebook, widely considered to be the gold standard among news organizations, is clear on its rule for the possessive of singular proper names ending in S — only an apostrophe is needed (Harris’), though there are always exceptions. The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal all do the opposite, opting... See more
Ben Hickey • Is It Harris’ or Harris’s? Add a Walz, and It’s Even Trickier.
“literature does its best to maintain that its concern is with the mind; that the body is a sheet of plain glass through which the soul looks straight and clear, and, save for one or two passions such as desire and greed, is null, negligible and nonexisent.” We lack a language to capture “this monster, the body, this miracle, its pain,” and if we
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