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David Macaulay, a bestselling author and illustrator, spoke about the process of writing his newly-released book, “The Way We Work,” which portrays human anatomy through vivid drawings of the inside of the body, at a speech at the Brattle Theater on Friday evening. Macaulay said that his own lack of appreciation for his healthy body prompted him to learn more about physiology. “This is one of the most extraordinary things we will encounter,” he said. Macaulay said he hopes that readers would come away from his book...
...unfashionable to play around with sounds the way Mark Twain did or Walt Whitman did. Whitman prided himself on being untranslatable, but it seems to me that lots of writers today write for the global market, which means they write a kind of very unshowy, clean prose that doesn't bounce around and have a lot of rambunctious...
...write this book? It's a tenet of linguistics these days that the relationship between the sound of a word and its meaning is arbitrary and I've always thought that was just crazy. I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word "wobble"? You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word "wince," you wince. How about that...
...write a lot about the South and about moving to the North. What do you think about the role of the South in the presidential election? The South has always stood for the visceral part of the country. Politics has to address more parts of the body than just the brain and the Democrats have to be reminded of that every time. Obama is cool and cerebral, but I've always thought he is a kind of unifier of the bodily parts of the country because he exudes calm and it doesn't seem like a fake calm. He walks...
...situation is somewhat different - delay is not an option. Accounting standards require financial institutions to routinely write down the value of assets to reflect their actual value. As a result, U.S. banks have booked massive losses, and the government has been forced to aggressively engineer ad hoc bailouts and mergers...