391 Mark Twain's Publishing Fiasco | Great Literary Terms and Devices Part 2 (with Mike Palindrome)
The History of Literature
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Is the Word Limb Still Used in Manuscripts?
The word timesus cracks me up, just because the idea that this thing even has a name. It comes from the greek word meaning to cut and it refers to cutting a word in two and then putting another word in the middle. Or fan fucking tastick iis one that people will often say,. kingsley amos had a really good one where he said in his book, i think it was an old devils or some bloody ware. And actually there's areally good one from john dunn, way back in the seventeenth century. He said, in what torn ship soever i embark, that ship shall be my emblem. What sea soever swallow me,
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