On Critics Who Explain Things
I didn't take that away from this article; I brought that to this article.
1
On The Ugly-Beauty Of Brutalism
The brutalist journalism/psychology complex at UGA has given rise to some great urban legends.
1. The building was paid for with money willed to the University. The donor, a strict woman, felt that windows distracted students and forbade them in all classroom spaces. (This one's probably true.)
2. Fear of race riots was running so high at the time of construction that the floor plan was designed to baffle anyone who didn't know it well. In the event that angry black people invaded, occupants could hide on the top floor, with five levels of different mazes and no less than three necessary staircases between them and the raging mob.
0
On The Ugly-Beauty Of Brutalism
Gay marriage wins and is all set to get destroyin' America when... is that... CARS???
A NEW CHALLENGER APPEARS
0
On The Ugly-Beauty Of Brutalism
Brutalism and gay marriage arm wrestling. Winner gets to destroy America.
0
On Do You Know Any Of Those Crazy Broads Who Would Rather Be Smart Than Have A Baby?
Some day soon the Onion and the National Review are going to merge seamlessly into some sort of...
Oh.
Wait.
Colbert.
0
On Scholar Finds The Fact That Mitt Romney Somehow Got To Be A Presidential Candidate Totally Amazing
@wallsdonotfall Ugh, no no no! It's all about the luxury goods. Iron was great for equipping swordsmen in Gandhi's crusade against the Spanish, but it was the Babylonians' monopoly on silk and silver that gave them the economic strength to beat everybody to the steam engine.
2
On Will Coldplay Gimmickry Kill Us All?
Afraid of a flashing bracelet? You might be just detached enough from reality to pay to be subjected to a Coldplay concert.
1
On List Mocks Your Maturity
Gardening? I know that lots of people are into it, but I never thought of that particular hobby as a universal constant.
0
On List Mocks Your Maturity
@beatbeatbeat He said we could ignore the really Britishy ones!
3
On Critics Who Explain Things
@deepomega No, do "tiresome" next!
Okay but really. You seem very upset that she didn't include the scare quotes on women's fiction, but then you quote her and, Lo, the words in question are framed by pairs of inverted commas.
"But," you sputter, probably after calling me tedious or god I hope tiresome, "those are simply quote quotes, not irony quotes or condescension quotes!"
Yes and all the different flavors of quote look the same. So I charitably decide that she is in fact reusing the construction from the review — women's fiction is hardly a novel enough coinage to attribute — and you can be less charitable and insist that only a triple quote mark will do. And you can't really say that either of us is wrong, because after all this silliness about author intent, both cases look exactly the same on the page.
Are you seeing the relevance to the discussion at hand?