Life in late capitalism can be vexing, alienating, fragmenting, and otherwise frustrating. There are many wonderful things in my life, but I'm more likely to talk about what's bad rather than what's good. I'm going to try to post one good thing here each day, and if you would join in by adding a good thing from your day in the comments, I'd love it--I'd absolutely love it. --RR
7/2: thinking about
...the various ways the word "as" works: expressing a time relationship, signaling a simile, completing a comparison, showing extent, qualifying or particularizing, helping to introduce a conditional clause of comparison, offering a reason or cause, showing purpose. Sometimes the categories of usage seem quite separate, but as I've been looking at Herman Melville's uses of "as" in Moby Dick, I'm realizing how often they blend into one another.
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