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“What will history’s verdict be about our time?" ~ Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos Yearning like a man yearns for fire on cold winter nights, I have given in to a primal need within me to possess a copy of the book 'Kairos.”

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“(About the reason why scholars hold inclination towards Arabic as a heresy): [...] one must not accept the customs of a people whose language one loves, nor cover up small coups d'état with the gold plate of language, nor dupe young people and Maecenases into believing that one can fence as soon as one knows how to parry and thrust and hold the épée and body.”

Meaning Influences Power Of Language

Book:Writings on Philosophy and Language

Source: Writings on Philosophy and Language

“Joke exchanges are carried on in deadly earnest, like a verbal duel-mouth-to-mouth combat. Bang, bang: you’re (linguistically) dead.”

Humor Jokes Language Play

Book:Language Play

Source: Language Play

“And a beautiful garden, not far from a beautiful lake, and I said it sounded perfectly perfect.”

Humor Funny Language Play Nice Language

Book:Lolita

Source: Lolita

“Pam replied that she was too old to worry about being cool, but in fact she did worry about it, and that’s one reason it was always nice to see Bobby, who was so uncool as to inhabit—in Pam’s mind—his own private condominium of coolness.”

Language Play

Book:The Burgess Boys

Source: The Burgess Boys

“Wolf hated the female tailless. He'd hated her from the first moment he'd smelt her, as she pointed the long claw that flies at his pack brother. What a thing to do! As if Tall Tail-less was some kind of prey!...Didn't she know that he was the lead wolf? She was so sharp and disrespectful when she yipped at him in tail-less talk. Why didn't Tall Tail-less just snarl and chase her away?”

Humor Wolf Language Play

Book:Wolf Brother

Source: Wolf Brother

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