Marlow’s Listener

Let’s face it, most of the general public does not really understand typography.

It is because they never exposed themselves to this type of theological debate that they can now be indicted for having “bought their atheism on the cheap”. They are, in the equally scathing words of other Eagleton enthusiasts, nothing more than “discount store atheists” or even “schoolyard atheists”.

Jane Jacobs, Redux

“Got any cabbage?”

Preparing to move on our own dime for the first time in quite a while to a smaller house calls for culling. Everything we own is now on sale for $1/pound, which is what it will cost us to get it across the country.
I started today in the library, with “my” books. Which do I [...]

Notice what I am objecting to is not the style advice in Elements, which might best be described the way The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy describes Earth: mostly harmless

The reason was a fear of immodesty, born of the injunction that wasps shouldn’t “make a show” of themselves. It was all right for me to explain the decisions that other writers made, but not the ones I had made. Only gradually did that affectation strike me as foolish. I would find myself remembering some [...]