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The Decline of the Sentence « The Thinking Housewife
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The Decline of the Sentence

October 4, 2016

THOMAS F. BERTONNEAU teaches literature to students who are unable to hold discussions on the assignments in complete sentences. Too many words can be a problem, he says, but then so can too few.

[O]ne way to die is to give up on language, to revert to speechlessness, so that, at first, one can only say yes or no, and finally only yes.

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