Language and Silence
Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman
George Steiner
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- “Motivation researchers,” those gravediggers of literate speech, tell us that the perfect advertisement should neither contain words of more than two syllables nor sentences with dependent clausesNov 20 2023 5:12AM
- There are those who hold out small hope. J. Robert Oppenheimer has pointed out that the breakdown of communication is as grave within the sciences as it is between sciences and humanities.Nov 20 2023 5:08AM