Author and Activist Susan Sontag Dies
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Holy cow.
Wow, that's a blow to the literary world.
Very sad news. That obituary is very strange though--the precis of Notes on Camp is dreadful, and as for 'In conversation, she comfortably used words such as "polyphonic" and "surreptitiously."'--um, who doesn't?
I haven't gotten a lot of use out of "dramaturg" recently.
I don't know that there's actually a need to use "polyphonic" when speaking, but "surreptitiously?" C'mon. Not big on "dramaturg" but I do like "anthropomorphize."
Well, if you're talking about music, "polyphonic" is pretty essential. Heck, I think it's on the label of the cheap keyboard I bought my son for Christmas.
I like "apotropaic" although I can never remember what it means. It just trips down the tongue and does a full somersault.
Yeah, well, when I talk about music, I tend to use words like "groovy" and "cool." I'm sure that ages me, but oh well.....
My BF used to BE a dramaturg, so that word does come up.
Could you explain it for me again? People explain it and explain it and I still can't hold on to the meaning. V. frustrating.