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Mar.18.2013 Dated or Lexicon? Last week, I submitted a chapter of my current manuscript to my crit partners, and one of them responded that she had trouble with a reference, even though I thought it was in context. Here’s the setup. Jinx, who’s an intel gatherer...	Dec.04.2012 Personal Dictionary December 4 PERSONAL DICTIONARY Everyone keeps a dictionary in his or her head. All the words lay on platters each with its own flavor and meaning. There are favorite menus, phrases, which form warmly in the mouth and hang sweetly for the ear. Other...
Jul.08.2012 #frm Enchantment This week my book ENCHANTMENT is being released and--at the urging of some intrepid supporters--I am launching it with a story-in-tweets for Twitter. Twitter has always been a mystery to me. I see it as a two-storey gossamer house. On the first floor etheric people float from tweet to tweet...	Jul.20.2010 Refudiate This: Sarah Gets Shakespeare My friend and grad school adviser Stanley Fish sent shock waves through the blogosphere when he praised Sarah Palin's book. "I wouldn't count myself a fan in the sense of being a supporter," he wrote in a review, still "I found it compelling and very well done." Given the...
Dec.04.2009 Personal Dictionary December 4 PERSONAL DICTIONARY Everyone keeps a dictionary in his or her head. All the words lay on platters each with its own flavor and meaning. There are favorite menus, phrases, which form warmly in the mouth and hang sweetly for the ear. Other vocabulary is exotic, pungent,...	Mar.30.2008 word for the day :: umwelt German for "environment" / "surrounding world," coined by Jakob Johann von Uexküll (September 8, 1864 - July 25, 1944) to refer to seeing the world from a particular lifeform's p.o.v. Here, for example, is Baron von Uexküll writing of a tick's umwelt: ...