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hermeneutics

I was thinking about this last night before I went to bed:

You see Chinese characters in the West all over the place, from Chinese restaurants to biker tattoos. The fact that people will stencil them into their flesh without even understanding them shows how iconic they’ve become. But people still use a primarily [...]

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something’s missing ‘n lost in translation

‘N, to confuse you, because it could be either IN or AND. That was part of the “slang” lesson I taught today, employed for confounding purposes.

A friend somewhat indirectly recommended that I watch the Bill Murray movie Lost in Translation. I knew before that it was a very well-received and critically applauded film; [...]

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bog

NaNoWriMo is slow trudging. I keep finding that I have more and more ideas for what I want to write, but I feel limited by where I am in the story right now. Actually, I feel constrained by the concept of plot entirely – as if what I want to write isn’t what [...]

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