"cross out with lines, draw lines across (something written) so as to deface," from… See origin and meaning of cancel.

Updating my “writers’ habits of spending” (which I wonder, too, why I didn’t call it “Writers’ Spending Habits”)… Fitzgerald looks to be another of these writers drive…

Letting A.I. patrol its own frontier is like asking Jesse James to patrol the Wild West.

Below is a list of all the mentions of hats in Against the Day (that I came across). Here are the types of hat mentioned with a rough count of how many times they were mentioned — Hat types: …

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She returned home and wrote: Dear Abe, I’ve felt awful all day about this morning’s note, in which I fear I spoke with too great a casualness about your work. I hope you think little en…

… She pats soddenly, with the flat of her hand, a patty of sand. … An inner tube overturned in the wave: it knows what’s happened sooner than the rider does. … The girl extends her thumb far to the…

Crossing the intersection, fourth of the five four-way stops, fifth of the eight five-way intersections. Discipline, patience, habit, fear, inhibition, inanition, rut, Francis, ghosts, Convenience,…

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Moved the laundry on (and notes) and took a break by scrolling through political blogs and notes. And I read one tweet about how liberal white women were the most moral force in history and I sank …