Life Imitates Art
by Joshua Malbin on Jan.12, 2010, under Uncategorized
Or at least moves too fast for irony. Or something.
Jesus.
UPDATE: This is apparently really a case of life imitating someone else’s art.
The irony mark or irony point (؟) (French: point d’ironie; also called a snark or zing) is a proposed punctuation mark that was suggested to be used to indicate that a sentence should be understood at a second level (e.g. irony, sarcasm, etc.)….This mark ؟ was proposed by the French poet Alcanter de Brahm (alias Marcel Bernhardt) at the end of the 19th century.
Someone French, no less.
January 12th, 2010 on 2:21 pm
you are way ahead of the curve!
January 21st, 2010 on 7:21 pm
Speaking of updates — I was cleaning out files from my computer from long ago and came upon a letter of recommendation I wrote for you in long-past days. It made me wonder what had become of you and your writing. And in less than a moment…
Anyway hello again, and if you’d like to see that rec, email me at the old Yale address.
JC
January 22nd, 2010 on 1:18 am
Cool! I just started Little, Big. Big Josh, send that address my way, I wanna say hello again too.
January 23rd, 2010 on 2:19 pm
Hey, Professor Crowley, I tried writing you at what I hope is the right email address. If you don’t get it, please let me know here.