He will come to feel increasingly like a member of the audience in the theater of his own illness. I've been there. ... Dying isn't so bad. It's getting sick and dying that's the hard part. I had ...

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Language Log’s post debunking the theory that vocal fry is a “new” trend. Linguist blogger Josef Fruehwald’s post on vocal fry. Slate’s June Thomas on editing Christopher Hitchens. Slate’s Christopher ...