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The Ethos of Ambiguity

“Our preferred method for integrating incongruous information is not to revisit a faulty premise, it seems, but to squeeze and stretch the existing premise in ever more convoluted ways to fit the new information.”

Jessica Love offers us a brief road map for words and sounds that lend themselves to multiple interpretations. Check out Derailed By “Who’s on First” to make sure you aren’t thinking about Play-Doh the next time people mention the Symposium.

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The American Scholar is the venerable and lively quarterly magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history, and culture published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society since 1932. In recent years the magazine has won four National Magazine Awards, the industry’s highest honor, and many of its essays and articles have been selected for the yearly Best American anthologies.

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