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Some Books Are to Be Tasted

In Cornelia Funke’s Inkheart, the plaque on the door to Mo’s bookbinding workshop bears the legend: Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly....

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Saga vs. Series

Or:   RT @melissa_marr *lit teacher moment* I didn’t write a saga–which is a specific type of text, NOT another wd for “series.”  Thank you, Melissa Marr, author of the Wicked Lovely series, for this...

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Stephen Fry on Language

Here’s a marvelous kinetic typography meditation on the joy of language and the limits of pedantry: Thanks to the lovely LeVar for sharing this via caligater.

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Technoevil and Evolution

Interesting article this a.m. on The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Beware Social Media’s Surprising Dark Side.” At the South By Southwest Interactive conference, academics and critics voiced their...

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