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...very unique, fractured dialect. After reading it, I couldn't stop thinking in that dialect. What was it like to write in it? It really was a blast, it was like writing poetry instead of prose. There were so many rules for what I was doing intentionally wrong. For example, I couldn't use the prefix un- - unhappy, unconscious. With Pygmy it was no happy or no conscious. I found myself saying no conscious a lot. You end up internalizing all that language and it lingers in your head and alters the way you think about things. It allows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist Chuck Palahniuk | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

...means "I guess I've forgotten so much German." Only I misconjugated the verb vergessen to vergast, and when I came out of the interview, the publicist was a furious with me. Vergast is the past tense of the verb "to gas people to death." I even said Deutsch wrong - I put an r in it, which turns it into meaning "German people" instead of the language. What I actually said was, "I'm so sorry that I have gassed to death so many German people." I was mortified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist Chuck Palahniuk | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

...hear any backlash? No, I fled. I got on a train and I was out of there and I just felt awful. I had insulted thousands of people. How could I say that? And I started thinking, maybe it's our crimes, the things we do hideously wrong, that gives God some pleasure in ending our lives. Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist Chuck Palahniuk | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

Crystal Y. Coser loves her "booty." Maybe this is the wrong picture, then...

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: Holy Harvard Hotties | 5/10/2009 | See Source »

Gottalaff, political blogger (6:25 p.m.) #nerdprom Newtie gets screams, but for all the wrong reasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tweets From a Washington Dinner (a.k.a. #nerdprom) | 5/9/2009 | See Source »

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