Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Quote of the day (And I'm Already Fluent edition)


carved rockHuman language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity.
- Flaubert, from "Madame Bovary"
(via Paul Spinrad, blogging at boing boing)

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