by David Bennett on July 2, 2009
I may be typing a comment in someone’s blog, or adding a tag to something I am bookmarking in Delicious, or any one of many places I may type that doesn’t immediately put a red line under the type to tell me that maybe I am spelling something incorrectly.
In the Google searchbox next to where the URL sits, just type in the word you suspect you may not know how to spell, and bingo, up (or down) comes a list of what you are very probably looking for. You could always hit the word and read more to check, but usually that is not necessary.
Spellchecker always at your fingertips.
I am using Safari as my browser of choice, but Firefox has the same facility. Who knows what IE does – (small dig in passing).
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by David Bennett on June 28, 2009
This is a classic in the best sense of the word, from the man who wrote Catch 22.
I read Something Happened (Heller’s second novel) some years ago and I read it again a few weeks ago.
It took me a while to read it this time, partly because the sentences resonated that much more with experiences I’ve had, and partly because the picture it paints of what human beings are hit me so hard I had to keep stopping to let it subside.
There’s hardly a word wrong in the book. Every sentence is truthful to what that character might say or do or think.
On the surface it is a story of a man who works in corporate America and who either hates or fears everyone around him. He wishes he were somewhere else doing something different, but he doesn’t know what he would do and he suspects he would take himself with him and be no better anywhere else.
He two-times his wife, argues unnecessarily with his children and plans his moves at work, all the time losing himself more and more.
Beneath that is a man who love is so painful that it hurts him to experience life.
And something happens.
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