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The Birth of a Language: An Interview with Judy Kegl
“On September 20, 2017, Kegl delivered two lectures at Princeton on language instincts and sign language. I was able to interview her in East Pyne before her second talk. The interview has been edited for clarity and length.”
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Princeton on Crutches
“There are so many random steps on campus that you don’t notice until they become a barrier. It’s hard to explain the dread that washes over you when you’re trying to crutch from Schultz to Friend in ten minutes and encounter a flight of stairs.”
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Head & Shoulders
“We agree about everything; our dependence on Nyquil, the tragedy of internalized misogyny, and the exact punctuation to use when texting fuckboys.”
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The Parapsychologists
“From the driveway, Professor Jahn was visible standing behind the screen door. He did not motion or wave as we drove off. He just watched us leave.”
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The Dead Guys
“We always did the same things every day: we went into the toy store and rearranged all the Rubik’s Cubes. We went into the library and looked at the medical encyclopedias or biographies of old ugly white guys in wigs.”
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September Re-readings of an August Letter Never Sent Toward Jericho in the Shadows of the Fading Sun
“Four Italians and an Israeli sitting in a blue Chevrolet. It could be the start of a joke.”
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Stages of Departure
“What do you do when you suspect that you’ve unleashed the atom bomb of the Universe”
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Lost Pieces
“Nails are too long, can’t remember to cut them they are colored with everything I hold like the skin of orange peel— a citrus flesh that never bleeds”
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Poor River
“Although the river and its people share the past, on this afternoon, the burden seems unevenly placed. The man whose socks are drying on the concrete can rest in peace knowing that his story has ended.”
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German Parody Party
“It was through squatting that Cörtlen developed an interest in radical politics.”
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Celebrating Community
“Thanks to Princeton, the opportunity was created for the students—but the rest? That’s on them.”