(Continued from VE Day and related recent posts.)
Monday, May 11, 2015
George Steiner vs. the Order of St. Benedict
See Steiner's phrase "Language Animal" in this journal
and the corresponding authentic phrase from a webpage
by a Benedictine monk —
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Sunday, May 10, 2015
Language Animal Farm
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Friday, May 8, 2015
Reflections of a Language Animal*
Overlook/Duckworth, pp.48, £9.99
* "Language animal" is a phrase apparently
invented by Steiner in 1969 that he later
attributed vaguely to the ancient Greeks.
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Tuesday, December 16, 2003
Tuesday December 16, 2003
Kaleidoscope turning…
Shifting pattern
within unalterable structure…
— Roger Zelazny, Eye of Cat
See, too, Blue Matrices, and
a link for Beethoven's birthday:
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