For two months, I let the article go unwritten, a document filled with loose thoughts on my desktop.
In either case, the publishing house comes out badly: When you are a publisher, you become willy-nilly defender of thought and word, and by an unwritten code when driven to the wall, commercial interests should become subservient to the far nobler aim of protecting free speech and thought.
Their insistence on the binding force of oral tradition ("the unwritten Torah") still remains a basic tenet of Jewish theological thought.
As you read these, please note that we would love to have your further thoughts along the same lines--your own "unwritten rules" for our future sequel to this month's column!
"All these unwritten things that have been put out there, all these different thoughts or ideas or concepts that you can't do this or you can't do that, I don't have any idea who invented that list," Maddon said.
For just as thoughts can be expressed either in writing, or as unwritten oral reflections, e.g., sayings and argumentations of sages, so they may be preserved for a long time by sages, or quickly forgotten and cast into historically insignificant bits of a community's past, only to be remembered by the few whom they touched in some special way.
"The thought that leads me to contemplate with dread the erasure of other voices, of unwritten novels, poems whispered or swallowed for fear of being overheard by the wrong people, outlawed languages flourishing underground, essayists' questions challenging authority never being posed, unstaged plays, cancelled films – that thought is a nightmare.
So we carry the unwritten note with us, a work forever in progress, to keep the family close in our thoughts, easy to impress and even dazzle — how nice of him to write! — as we take the time necessary to let things settle, adjust to the loss in our own small and selfish way.
And sing the virtues of the retractable thought, the all-purple, jet-flow thought which, we hope, will cause the retractable pen to pull in its point like a scared turtle, leaving the thought unwritten, the paper mercifully blank.... View Article By Jelani Cobb By David Remnick By Doreen St. Félix By Joan Acocella.
And sing the virtues of the retractable thought, the all-purple, jet-flow thought which, we hope, will cause the retractable pen to pull in its point like a scared turtle, leaving the thought unwritten, the paper mercifully blank.... View Article By Rivka Galchen By Larissa MacFarquhar By Malcolm Gladwell By Ceridwen Dovey.
