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...comeback. In a society comprised of compulsive writers and readers, of empty-calorie text, the study of artful language—of words that truly matter—is more necessary now than ever. If you cannot dance atop the tsunami of signifiers heading your way, it will crush you. Learn to breathe language, or else choke on it. If you cannot control it, it will control you. Your words will die on your lips; your thoughts will turn to dust. Taming unruly syllables—bending signification to suit your needs, understanding that everything is language, matrices of metaphor...
...understood what I was getting myself into by attending college in Boston during the pinnacle years of Boston sports. The Red Sox had broken the curse, the Celtics had rebuilt a championship-caliber team, and my roommate had an unabashed man-crush on Tom Brady...
...remembers her friend having a crush on him in middle school. He remembers her in a few of his classes freshman year of high school. Growing up in East Long Meadow, Mass., the two attended school together beginning in kindergarten, but did not begin dating until their senior year of high school, after Morton took the lead in asking Ahmed to a movie. The two continued dating through college, even though they were separated by several state lines and a four-and-a-half hour bus ride...
Similar to Craigslist’s “Missed Connections,” Toor’s websites invite students to post amorous notes about their crushes—names striken but humorous descriptions preserved—in the hopes that the crush might see the post. If professing in person, the speaker would be deemed quite bold. Yet on the Internet, the speaker is masked, so the potentially negative ramifications of proclaiming one’s feelings effectively disappear...
...course, people tend to be hush-hush about crushes anyway. “You might not want your crush knowing that [you think] she is the most beautiful girl in the world,” Toor adds. “I think it is the nature of the subject material—people often keep things of that sort private, so this gives them a space to make it public...