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Hunting Down the Missing Epigraph
Alana Wilcox, Editorial Director at Coach House Books, has been kind to me. I had borrowed from the Toronto Public Library Sylvia Legris’s Nerve Squall. The copy (first edition from 2005) has in the Sources section a note about the … Continue reading
Autocorrect Greatest Hits
On a monthly basis I exchange food remarks with a friend. In some of the messages there is often a linguistic puzzle to solve. A veritable cornucopia of the deliciously memorable. Look how squash turned out: shush From an exchange … Continue reading
The Learners Actually Teach
The polite question: It is possible that a typing error also occurs in the statement? “The possibility of dialogue is inscribed in the very gesture of theorizing is a gesture of demarcations.” (Humanist 17.341 theory) I asked a friend living … Continue reading
Descant on the Descent of Dissent
I thought there were pronounced distinctly differently (long e for descent; short i for dissent) until I read this accidental in a text by Andrew Steves. Nonconformist publishers can be put at a considerable competitive disadvantage if their choice to … Continue reading
Anachronism Fest
I find anachronism to be a charming trope. I am particularly drawn to the markers of temporal irregularities. Julia Cooper in The Last Word: Reviving the Dying Art of Eulogy describes how news spread of the death of President Lincoln. … Continue reading
Stick Stock Stuck
Tick. Tock. Tuck. Autocorrect can lead to some nice surprises: I saw an interesting recipe for soup: take Brussel sprouts and lightly fry with onion and garlic, add turmeric and curry powder. Add stick and let cook. Puree. Seems delicious. … Continue reading
What is a Godlfish?
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco “Aunt Margaret” from The Tough Romance 1979 rpt Guernica Editions, 1990 […] There was a marshy patch behind her house. When Sundays brought the family to her rooms, I’d hunt the puddled grass for frogs and … Continue reading
Auto Error Correct or Auto Correct Error
From a legal newsletter Fun with Spelling Clients and/or opposing parties may be puzzled or insulted if you accidentally recommend ‘medication’ or ‘meditation’ rather than ‘mediation’, even though the former two may be more appropriate to the case. It has … Continue reading
Profs and Porn Star Names
A most curious error crept into My Mother Was a Computer by N. Katherine Hayles. Montreal professor Eric Savoy appears as Ric Savoy in a discussion of a Henry James story (In the Cage). The name change takes on a … Continue reading
The Context of Contest
There is for me a very interesting accidental in the text of “Film as Dialogical Art: Bakhtin, Pragmatics and Film Criticism” by Janina Falkowska a paper presented at the 1991 “Interaction in Process” Colloquium of Comparative Literature in Canada and … Continue reading