[lit-ideas] Re: Exercise

  • From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:56:15 -0800

I propose a list of words or phrases that are in common parlance that you know you've never used. And possibly some meditation as to why.


To begin. I don't think I have ever used the phrase "It's only natural that." I don't like such appeals to consensus agreement, particularly when they come loaded with implicit moral judgments.

David Ritchie,
in the hollows of a cold, looking up at the sky and wondering in
Portland, Oregon
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