Scientists are a famously anonymous lot, but few can match in the depths of her perverse and unmerited obscurity the 20th-century mathematical genius Emmy Noether.
Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only the relations of men to women, but the relation of women to themselves.
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A pangram is a sentence that includes all the letters of the alphabet, such as: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
We went out
into the school yard together, me and the boy
whose name and face
I don’t remember. We were testing the range
of the human voice:
he had to shout for all he was worth,
I had to raise an arm
from across the divide to signal back
that the sound had carried.
He called from…
D.F. Wallace
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Document for David Foster Wallace’s class entitled “English 183A Your Liberal-Arts $ at Work” in which he points out common grammatical errors.
From UT’s Harry Ransom Center David Foster Wallace Archive
via savingpaper
And but so you should also know: It is sometimes—just sometimes, not always—effective to break the rules.
[here is another bone to pick with you], Lucille Clifton
here is another bone to pick with you
o mother whose bones i worry for scraps,
nobody warned me about daughters;
how they bewitch you into believing
you have thrown off a pot that is yourself
then one night you creep into their rooms and
their faces have hardened into odd flowers
their voices are choosing in foreign elections and
their legs are open to strange unwieldy men.
