From the story "The Letting Down of the Hair"
in The Book of Folly (1972) by Anne Sexton
to The Essential Emily Dickinson (1996),
poems selected by Joyce Carol Oates
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Me
Me, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three.
-- from The Devil's Dictionary (1911) by Ambrose Bierce (1842-ca. 1914)
President Donald Trump
Trump is always thinking of himself.
Monday, September 14, 2020
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