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  William Faulkner: He [Ernest Hemingway] has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

Ernest Hemingway: Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

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  —Ernest Hemingway (on William Faulkner. ), Fighting Words, p.100.

Google just cries out for Tom Lehrer

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

Or rather, the phenomenon that is Google cries out for Tom Lehrer. Come out of retirement, Tom! Political satire is not obsolete, notwithstanding Kissinger’s Nobel …. A colleague posted on a listserv a brief note about an article on “Google’s planes”. I thought, no, really? Google is buying planes? for streetview, I imagine — holy [...]

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