Everyone should be using it.

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Contrary to the dangerous doctrines of Jacob Levy expressed here, you must organize your personal books according to the Library of Congress system. Minor variations will be tolerated, provided there is adequate justification.

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Poet and translator Michael Hofmann of the University of Florida was recently elected to the Academy of Arts and Sciences. I’m quite confident that he’s the only member with whom I’ve drunk beer.

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I will not be predicting the second round, nor am I going to predict how long the series will last. Eastern Conference Nets v. Heat: On TNT one night, Charles Barkley said, with a completely straight face, that you could look at Vince Carter and tell that he didn’t lift weights. WINNER: Heat, but just [...]

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If you repeat without qualification the scurrilous and ignorant claims of a book you review, is it fair to say that you then endorse those claims? Discuss with specific attention to “he downplays the Holocaust and anti-Israeli terrorism. A philosopher of language, he tosses around the words genocide and terror indiscriminately” et al from Mark [...]

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My review-essay, “Cognitive Storyworlds,” on David Herman’s Story Logic appears in the 38.1 edition of Style. Here’s a paragraph which touches upon one of my current research interests: One immediate example of this is what might be termed the ontological properties of narrative for Herman. What is the relation between narrative and language? The answer [...]

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Keywords: Mnemosyncresis. Found drama. Clavicle. Gandz, Solomon. “The Dawn of Literature: Prolegomena to a History of Unwritten Literature.” Osiris 7 (1939): 261-522.

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Bloch’s Les Rois Thaumaturges tells the tale.

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Whose error? “The vocabulary of Evolution is like the Eskimos’ vocabularly–narrow in its richness; they have a thousand designations for all varieties of snow and ice…” (Lem, Imaginary Magnitude, 164).

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Has always sucked. That’s why it’s not a good role model for the project

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Use them to kill bugs. Hassett, Charles C. “Current Status of Insect Control by Radiation.” Science 124.3230 (23 November, 1956): 1011-1012. The side-effects might be described as prognorrhoea.

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Is here. The best fiction was the Denis Johnson stories republished in Jesus’ Son.

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“In the U.S., there is a periodical published by scientists and intended strictly for the cognoscenti, some specialists. It abounds with parodies, in-jokes (mostly nonsensical), and crazy ideas, entirely inaccessible to outsiders.” Lem. “Twenty Two Answers and Two Postscripts.” SFS 13 (1986): 251. The early days of Philosophy of Science had a strange and often [...]

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STUTTGART, Germany (AP) — A man wielding a sword attacked parishioners at a Protestant church in southwest Germany, killing one person and injuring several others. The Baden-Wuerttemberg state Interior Ministry said the attack occurred during a church service. It had no immediate details on the suspect or his motives.

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At the end of The Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel finds that Iucounu has undergone some changes. A creature from Achernar, kin to his own daimon Firx, has infected him. Now Firx, residing in Cugel’s liver or thereabouts, is unable to control Cugel’s behavior except by the negative reinforcement of internal excruciations. Iucounu, however, has [...]

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“Liane sped down a wide avenue lined with a few stunted old cypress trees, and he heard him close at his heels. He turned into an archway, pulled his bronze ring over his head, down to his feet. He stepped through, brought the ring up inside the darkness. Sanctuary. He was alone in a dark [...]

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