Month: May 2026
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The unexamined language
Language is power. It is the most malleable material of our world. And it is also our mightiest, though most treacherous tool. It has the capacity to slither silently between our senses and the world, to burrow deep into our brains and rewire the living cables of our body, to hack our perception of reality.…
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Proust and my day
Proust’s sentences are like extended, protracted, interminable, long-drawn-out silkworms ; precious creatures producing the finest of fabric: text. Even people who have never read any of Proust’s writing know that his sentences are gentle behemoths–so long as to make you forget they even had a beginning once you reach their elusive end. They might not…
Sarah Owl Jewett 