Euclid for children is barbarous.
Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to the nasal cavity, and below, the passage to the larynx.
Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.
The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.
What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?
When I speak it is in order to be heard.
In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.
What I'm saying is that until somebody steps up and actually has a forceful attack on Donald Trump and actually takes him down a notch, Donald Trump is just going to keep plowing through.
Promote yourself, but do not demote another.
The laughter that happens when people are truth-telling and showing up and being real - I call that "knowing laughter. " That's what happens between people when we recognize the absurdity of the belief that we're alone in anything.
If you write a piece, it's a different thing to show it to an editor than it is to show it to your best friend. You think, "Maybe she'll see through this or she'll see through that. " That happened to me with my best friend back in Vancouver. I showed him "Just a Dream" and he took off the headphones halfway through and said, "Man, this is kind of garbage. " He told me I needed to get singing lessons.