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Lingua fracta

With our common cultural vocabulary splintering or disappearing, it's not so easy to only connect

By Gail Caldwell

August 5, 2007

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Daylight is already waning by early July, and so it was that on a recent night when the stars were out, the conversation turned to the subject -- typically breezy for this crowd -- of death's final mystery. I was trying to say something about the bright edges of existence being defined by the certainty of their end, and so ... (Full article: 1106 words)