As books descend into the territory of the meme—and cease to be read in a thorough-going way—we might reflect on our relationship to language in general, which is becoming something like a prehensile tail. Watching a movie or listening to an interview even from another decade—say the 1970’s—means traveling back in time to a time when verbal improvisatio…
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