Friday June 18, 2010
"Somewhere a Dog Barked"
Rosecrans Baldwin
Slate
Pick up just about any novel and you'll find a throwaway reference to a dog, barking in the distance.
As a reader of novels and not much else, I keep a running list of authorial whims. Male writers of the Roth/Updike generation, for example, love the word cunt. Also, where novelists once adorned their prose with offhand French bon mots, Spanish now appears.
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