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"Too much traffic"
About Me
- Jenny Davidson
- I have published four novels and four books of literary criticism; I'm currently at work on a book called FOR THE LOVE OF BROKEN THINGS: MY FATHER, EDWARD GIBBON AND THE RUINS OF ROME. I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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- The wobble
- A teemingness of rubrics
- Literary minefields
- Amazing rare things
- "My my I do like to work"
- Carnivorous boarding
- Scanner = 1; camera = 0
- "More public-spirited pigs"
- Pig racing
- The counterfactual mode
- Syringed
- 1950s B-movie soundtracks
- Ostrich Eggshell Beads
- Convergences
- Monasticism
- Double life
- "A word not elegant, nor in use"
- Nests, ninnies
- Narratives of decline
- Just in case
- Clover's lithotomy crutch
- It is not funny, but...
- Postscript
- Dagwood Splits the Atom
- "Still works fine after that hefty dose of radiation"
- "A film star on a biscuit box"
- The Cape
- Exclusivity
- "Sunny!"
- Riverside Drive
- A string down the middle of the bed
- Rooms with a view
- "Not a stomachache"
- Unsend
- The finger
- Windex meringue
- Playing catch-up
- Transported
- Thursday miscellany
- Back from the internet black hole
- AWOL
- "It would be mad, unnecessary"
- Nipped
- Arrangements
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To much definiteness - can't be meaningful!
ReplyDeleteThought that sounded right up Cathy Gallagher's alley...and there she is!
ReplyDeleteJenny,
ReplyDeleteThere are related ideas in statistics; see here:
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2005/03/potential_outco.html
and here:
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2005/04/more_on_potenti.html