George Orwell’s Six Rules for Saving the Language (and the World)
The world doesn’t make much sense to me. Or, more precisely, the sense that the world makes to others is not the sense it makes to me.
Nowhere is this more evident in the use and abuse of language. Language of any kind is a slippery, imperfect instrument at best. And if we want to get good [...]
The Toughest Trees Audio Version
The Toughest Trees ever is the latest Seanachai podcast. There was something about the tree saying, “Yeah, and your great-great-great-great granddaddy was punk too,” that I couldn’t resist. I just had to read it aloud.
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Take a Class.
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