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- Homage to Stephen Craneon Jul 25, 2016 in Anton Chekov Bierce Emerson Hemingway Henry James Mark Twain Oscar Wilde Stephen Crane ThoreauHe was 28 when he died, at a health spa in the Black Forest of Germany. What had we achieved by that age, reader? For my part, very little. Perhaps you achieved more, or much. But it's his age at death that makes him most rema...
- How Not to Do Things with Words: "Black Lives Matter"The title to this post is a little play on the title of a work of the philosopher J.L. Austin called How to Do Things with Words. What prompts me to write it are the antics of the unfortunate Mr. Trump, the maudlin Mr. Beck, and the increasingl...
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