Ancient Quotation Marks? I was startled to read the following in the article linked above (emphasis mine):’Instone-Brewer radically reinterprets the first passage using, of al Continue Reading →
Try and fly An interesting little column in the Detroit Free Press (which should please Eric) notes too things that have occurred to me. The first (the derivation Continue Reading →
Allusion in the Modern Novel I was reading Marilynne Robinson’s novel Gilead tonight, and in one passage the narrator describes himself and a friend as boys spending large parts o Continue Reading →
