#DeWitt2023 "Could my father really be that bad?....I wanted to say: but at least he's seen the world." 238

"Kambei: A samurai doesn't get so drunk that he loses his senses." -Seven Samurai, Akira Kurasawa (1954)

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#DeWitt2023 "Today was my 5th day of school. It was boring.
Today is Saturday....I told S. I thought I should do some more French & Greek & Latin & Hebrew & Arabic...because apparently I will not get to do them at school until I am 12 & I was afraid I would forget them by then." Ludo, age 6.
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Helen DeWitt starts with Cormac McCarthy's approach to punctuation and ends up telling a deeply unhappy story about the editing on her extraordinary first book, The Last Samurai

https://paperpools.blogspot.com/2007/08/cormac-mccarthy-semi-colon.html

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THE ENGLISH UNDERSTAND WOOL by Helen DeWitt is marvellous, as good as everyone said it was, but then it would have been "mauvais ton" not to love it, wouldn't it?

Here's the link to my review:
https://readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2023/01/03/the-english-understand-wool-helen-dewitt/

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