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Among the characteristics of “wooden language” that the French scholar Françoise Thom identified in a 1987 thesis (La langue de bois) were abstraction and the avoidance of the concrete; tautologies (“the theories of Marx are true because they are correct”); bad metaphors (“the fascist octopus has sung its swan song”); and Manichaeanism that divides
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(For example, can you name one good, practicing transvestite in the Senate?
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Albert Burnekodefector.com
I’m stunned she thinks this lie will work. Doesn’t she realize they can check? Who does she think controls the airspace? They flew in last night.
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Nora Ephron, “The Best Journalism Teacher I Ever Had,” Northwest Scholastic Press, June 18, 2013, www.nwscholasticpress.org/2013/06/18/the-best-journalism-teacher-i-ever-had/#sthash.ZFtUBv50.dpbs; also written about by Ephron in her essay “Getting to the Point,” in Those Who Can … Teach! Celebrating Teachers Who Make a Difference, by Lorraine
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Perhaps Fry actually was, as Mary McCarthy wrote, “a perfect madman.” To perceive the blinding irrational vastness of absolute evil, one almost needs to be mad.
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Melissa Perry-Clemens
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where virtue is without genius, and genius without honor; where the love of order is confounded with a taste for oppression, and the holy rites of freedom with a contempt of law;