on the dialogical nature of left-wing cant The discourse of the Whigs is cloven like a devil’s hoof. – Neal Stephenson, The System of the World,Vol. III of The Baroque Cycle, Harper Perennial, New York, 2005, p. 203
a million muscles: aphorisms and aperçus and excerpts from Declan Donnellan’s The Actor and The Target with a few notes You cannot explain why acting is alive, because you cannot explain life. In fact, if you can explain it it’s dead. But block is mostly dead structure, as dead as any old ideology, and that is why it can be mostly explained. … None of us can ever be sure