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Of words and rankings and Libya…

November 28, 2012 By Jordan

Y can’t make up its mind if it’s a vowel or a consonant, can it?

…David Mitchell, my third favorite author, who may one day vie against my second, though who will need to write something seriously sexy before upjumping my first, but who has already hurdled my fourth, yet is perhaps the only person in the world who loves a word, not any word, mind you, but “a” word, as much as said fourth, in this LA Times interview, which isn’t nearly as “good” as, though is probably more honest than, this interview in that magazine for people who, you know, love to love words more than they actually love words themselves, but who likely don’t, unlike my third and fourth favorite authors, know the sound of your tongue rounding a corner.

Filed Under: Good ol' fashioned rant, Things I wish I'd written Tagged With: David Mitchell, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Michael Ondaatje, Murakami Haruki