Stuff

Birth anxiety.

The Week Magazine reported that an Indian man announced he was suing his parents for bringing him into this world without his consent.

The Mumbai man said that his parents selfishly "had me for their joy and their pleasure" and that "he didn't ask to exist."

English

Jorge Luis Borges liked English.  He wrote this once:

"And English has another virtue.  The virtue of Anglo-Saxon words: they're short.

If you say selini in Greek, that's far too long - three syllables. In Spanish, luna, 2 syllables.  In French, just one syllable, really, lune. But in English that beautiful, lingering word 'moon'.  It's the right word, no? Moon and sun, those two were the right words."

Selection

A few years ago, I found a group picture that included my late wife.  I did a preliminary scan of the picture and the only part that was outlined was her smiling face.  I had done nothing to make that happen.

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