Still reading
As I still haven’t found a replacement for the Google Reader feed of what I’ve been reading, here comes a post. I’ve kept a few tabs open and—without promising anything—I might opt for regularly putting together posts like this one.
Or, I could say: That moment when you finally resort to collecting interesting reads in a blogpost.
A historic parallel? The crazy, long chapter headings in 19th-century novels, which often were also dependent clauses, inviting the reader to imagine the rest of the baroque narrative. “ In Which Our Protagonist Meets A Dashing Stranger ,” McCulloch jokes.
Then there’s this Reddit analysis of a sentence from Fifty Shades of Grey, for people who like grammar.
Grammar purists will argue that Pulling off his boxer briefs is a misplaced modifier, since it modifies Christian, not his erection , which comes (pun definitely intended) immediately after it.
And an interview with Kevin Lynch, the person at Apple responsible for turning the Apple Watch into a product. How the article ends is perfection.
A moment later, he stands up. He has to leave; he owes Dye and Ive an update on something important. In all the time we’ve been talking, he’s never once looked at his phone.