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...made to repeat a characteristic malapropism one too many times, what usually seems like an intelligent technique for defamiliarizing us from our own speech starts to feel a bit too much like pointless and supercilious cruelty. It is one thing to have a character write “ourselfs?? instead of “ourselves,” but it is a bit much to have him say of his friend’s daughter, “which that incident was, Baby Amber died...

Author: By Moira G. Weigel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Weigel Room: Stories Frolic at the Border of Absurdity | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

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