Tag: European Culture

European Culture

(Continued from VE Day and related recent posts.)

George Steiner vs. the Order of St. Benedict

See Steiner's phrase "Language Animal" in this journal  and the corresponding authentic  phrase from a webpage by a Benedictine monk —

Language Animal Farm

The title refers to Friday's VE Day post. See also Monkey Grammarian in this journal.

Reflections of a Language Animal*

  The Idea of Europe  George Steiner Overlook/Duckworth, pp.48, £9.99 * "Language animal" is a phrase apparently     invented by Steiner in 1969 that he later    …

Tuesday December 16, 2003

Moulin Bleu    Kaleidoscope turning… Shifting pattern within unalterable structure… — Roger Zelazny, Eye of Cat    See, too, Blue Matrices, and a link for Beethoven's birthday: Song for…