Monday, November 05, 2012
Hashing things out …
… As a Matter of Fact: A Roundtable Discussion about Anonymous’ “The Facts of the Matter” and Truth and Craft in Nonfiction — BREVITY's Nonfiction Blog. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
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I sit here thinking how satisfying it would be to write a Microsoft Word virus that would cause a file to delete itself upon encountering the string "meta" in any but narrowly limited contexts. "Metaphysics", ok; "metamorphosis", ok; "meta" as adjective or adverb, the file vanishes; "meta-nonfiction", Word uninstalls itself.
ReplyDeleteTruly Aristotle's early editors did the world a disservice, when they bundled those eight books in after the Physics, and named then according to their position.