etymology
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Yes, yes, many people are fond of James Joyce and his writing, but this bawdy BDSM erotica does better at engaging with the past.
To be in conversation with the past, ideas have to flow both ways. With “Lost Boi,” a gritty, realist, genderqueer retelling of Peter Pan, Sassafras Lowrey pulls it off.
Barbara Hamby, BDSM, capon, consent, English, erotica, etymology, Ezra Pound, fantasy, genderqueer, Gillian Anderson, heroin, James Joyce, Joyce, Lost Boi, modern English, modernity, mythology, Peter Pan, poly, polyamory, puns, reviews, Sassafras Lowrey, scortatory, Shakespeare, Stephen Dedalus, T. S. Eliott, theatre, Ulysses, Want
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On bad penis puns.
Modern English is built on a foundation of The King James Bible and William Shakespeare – the former, plagiarized from a person we burned on the stake for his efforts; the latter, Lord Regent of Bad Penis Puns, as though his very name compelled him: Willy-I-Am Shake-Spear, Billy Wagcock, old I am a dick now…
bad puns, Barbara Hamby, capon, Christopher Logue, competition, consensual nonmonogamy, cooperation, education, Emily Wilson, Entitled, etymology, Eugenia Cheng, fornicate, gender, history of English, humor, hysteria, James Joyce, jealousy, Joyce, Kate Manne, Mansplaining, Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender, men, mythology, OED, Oxford English Dictionary, patriarchy, Penelope's Lament, penis, penis puns, poetry, polyamorous, polyamory, puns, scortatory, sex, sexuality, Shakespeare, slang, teaching, Telemachus, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Ulysses, vagina, vulgar slang, War Music, women, X+Y
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On conspiracy.
With a select few, we breathe the same air.
breathe, conspiracy, conspiracy theory, conspirator, coronavirus, coronavirus antibodies, coronavirus transmission, Covid, covid transmission, Covid-19, Covid-19 antibodies, Covid-19 transmission, duration of coronavirus immunity, duration of covid immunity, duration of immunity, epidemic, etymology, herd immunity, herd immunity threshold, immunity, Latin etymology, Latin roots, mask, mask order, masks, Pandemic, roots of words, short immunity, short-lived immunity, we breathe the same air, we share the same air, wearing masks, word roots
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On Tara Westover’s “Educated.”
How can you learn to trust in a world where your beloved family member’s visage might conceal a monster?
alternate histories, alternate history, apocalypse prepping, behavioral change, Charles Reznikoff, cocaine, coke, cultural knowledge, drugs, Educated, eels, endangered eels, etymology, gaslighting, government aid, Hillbilly Elegy, history, Holocaust, Hulk smash, J.D. Vance, jail poetry, Jekyll and Hyde, memory, paranoia, perception, poetry class, poverty, preppers, prison poetry, SNAP, storytelling, Tara Westover, teaching poetry, teaching poetry in jail, The Hulk, the mutability of memory, traumatic brain injury
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On weird spelling.
Conquest, graft, and mispronunciation gave rise to the weird we know and love today.
Alexander Smart, archaic English, Beowulf, Bible, Chaucer, divination, Dutch h, dyslexia, English, English spelling, etymology, ghost, Gutenberg, history of spelling, i before e, King James, monks, Norman conquest, Norman Invasion, OED, Old English, Oxford English Dictionary, professional scribes, reading tea leaves, Shakespeare, spelling, spelling bee, tasseography, tea leaves, typesetters, weird, wierd, William Morris, written language, wurd, wyrd, wyrde
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