magid

After four weeks of unproductive negotiations, odd-numbered pages appear ever more likely to walk out of their bindings. A strike is now imminent. "Uneven pages are every bit as reliable as their even counterparts," a demoralized spokespage told the med ia, reiterating his constituents' desire to distance themselves from the troublesome connotations of their traditional moniker, "odd." Meanwhile, publishers hasten to roll out reprinted volumes of the latest bestsellers in even-only editions, while authors, particularly left-handed authors, stand firmly behind the afflicted. "Some of my best pages are uneven," said one popular novelist who wished to remain anonymous..

from Donald Murray's article in today's Boston Globe:
I once heard Grace Paley say, ''We write about what we don't know about what we know.'' Exactly. Writing isn't writing what we know but what we don't know we know until we write it. Writing is t hinking, exploration, discovery, and surprise.

I find his articles are usually a lovely essay to read, a short piece that often makes me think, or look at things differently.

In another article, a review of a show coming to the Coolidge Corner Theater t hat's all in Yiddish, there was mention of instant translation on a screen, dubbed "Yid-o-Matic." hmmmm....

The lake had mist rising from it this morning, making me think how easy it would be for this to make people more likely to believe in magic. Some thing about seeing it from the highway, though, kept it from going from beautiful landscape to magical this morning.

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" cn't sy "fck" wtht vwls! H H H!"

"...old glory has a new symbology...."

(from npr this evening)