Are blogs retro yet?
language has no meaning, words mean everything, the platform of thought is language, the mind is mapped by its words … yet change happens
Two possible ways of labeling that finance pig. Big Ed followed the well worn Thatched path, cautioning:
Attempts to regulate them away may do more harm than good
my bolding of the conditional, but notice the conditioned response:
more harm than good
This is structured to induce fear, resulting in stasis. It could also have be written
may do more good than harm
but that wouldn’t pass econocaste 101.
This from Amazon. A reviewer offering appraisal of a first novel.
The problem with a lot of first novels is that they start off impressively (often with a terrific opening sentence or first page) and then kind of disintegrate after that. –Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
Lizy, can you guess my advice to you? Don’t whimper while you write. Chew your thoughts before spitting or swallowing. “Kind Of” weakens most thoughts, putting you on a side road instead of the main road.
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