For the use of dictionaries and other extraneous materials

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Dictionaries also reflect the ideology of the powers that be.  I read somewhere that one of the terms added to the latest edition of the OED is "right-sizing,"  creating the optimum-sized workforce.  In other words, a management-speak euphemism for firing people. 

-----Original Message-----
>From: Keith McMullen <schwitterz11 at netscape.net>
>Sent: May 3, 2006 10:25 AM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: For the use of dictionaries and other extraneous materials
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>Like any tool, it's what you do with it that matters. A dictionary in 
>the hands of a literalist turns writing into fundamentalism. In the 
>hands of a Nabokov it's a magic wand.
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