Quote for Today: Becky Chambers
Jane 23 did not understand what she was seeing. On the other side of the wall, there were not more walls. There were huge piles of scrap, but far …
Quote for Today: Philip Pullman
The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is …
Quote for Today: Arthur Koestler
Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the forces which make it work- …
Faking English: Skwerl by Brian Fairbairn and Karl Eccleston
If a conversation contains patterns taken from English but not sensible words, do we still perceive it as English? What is it that gives a language its own personality and …