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That shall be made integers by their addition.
About This Blog
This [blog] is my Savings Bank. I grow richer because I have somewhere to deposit my earnings; and fractions are worth more to me because corresponding fractions are waiting here that shall be made integers by their addition.
—Emerson, Journal (1834)
—Emerson, Journal (1834)
You must collect things for reasons you don't yet understand.
—Daniel J. Boorstin
Favorite Fractions
- Faulkner and the Black Arts Movement
- St. Louis Public Schools
- Escape From Spiderhead
- Glenn Beck, Barack Obama, & Innocence
- South Side Wanderings
- Raymond Carver Revisited
- The Fox Park Neighborhood
- Fatherhood in One Hundred Words
- Thoughts on THE WIRE
- Adventures at QT
- Redistributing Wealth in America
- Beverly Cleary Revisited
- High School vs. College Teaching
- Suttree, by Cormac McCarthy
- CFK, Sr., 1925-2009
Integers: My Writing Elsewhere
- Hating Bush vs. Hating Obama
- Disney, Obama, and the American Dream
- When Slaves Sued for Freedom: A City Reckons with Its Past
- Evil and the Garden
- Last Words
- Racial Politics and Obama: A New Era?
- The Bechdel Test and Classic Literature
- Obama's Moral Understanding vs. Bush's Swagger
- Navigating the Waters of Our Biased Culture
- Barry Bonds and Black Manhood
- Same Old Song: American Racism, American Plutocracy
- Her Story Next to His: Beloved and The Odyssey
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- New Yorker Fiction By the Numbers
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- The Hardy Boys Need No Eulogy
- Wallace Thurman, Edward P. Jones, and Me
- The End of the Workshop
- The Risks of Fiction
- It's All Right to Cry: Restoring Raymond Carver's Voice
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- Arsenal and Grant
- The Connections
- Reading Route 100
- On Good Neighbors and Bad Neighbors
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4 comments:
The earliest appearance in the New Yorker seems to be 1926, but Alexandra Jacobs used it in similar context for Kartrashian back in March. The word does seem to have a wide and voluminous attraction with New Yorker writers, nonetheless....
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Great research, Steve!
A word I learned from Magistra McConaghy long ago. Glad to see it being used.
Looks like at least one other reader had the same reaction as I did. The word comes up in a live chat Remnick did about his article:
QUESTION FROM PAWEL: I only came here to say that “callipygian” is my new favorite word. Kudos, and continued thanks for your thoughts.
DAVID REMNICK: Just don’t use it too often or in the wrong situation. It’s a misdemeanor, at least.
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