Citizens of corporations continuously expose one another to venomous verbalism in their perpetual efforts to carry themselves as linguistically sound and up to date, like I am doing now. I recently started maintaining a list of distinct patterns in such occurrences. I am hardly immune to such crassness. I simply hope to cut down on [...]
Posts from ‘October, 2009’
Book Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo opens with the one last wish of a very old birthday boy Henrik Vanger, a retired industrialist. Every year he receives a new exotic flower as a birthday gift and it is a constant reminder of the decades old unsolved disappearance of his brother’s daughter that continues [...]
The Debate on Posthumous Works
This is turning to be a big year for posthumousness. Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy is stealing millions of hours of his readers’ lives. Previously unpublished (and in some cases, unfinished) works of Agatha Christie, Carl Jung, Graham Greene, Kurt Vonnegut, Vladimir Nobakov and many others are in various stages of publishing. Every week literature sections [...]