The act of defining words as a means of protest at a time when splitting hairs on semantics was a show of political colour, when key terminology is redefined to sway public opinion. A beautiful book, but it's already been on sale in McSweeney's for some number of years and I open it randomly and a word sticks out talking about something politically awful yet so imminently forgetable happening on one of a dime-a-dozen countries who despise America. Has it influenced legislation? Has it changed someone's life? Was it funny? Was it cool? Sad realisation that words may be cheap, but we still can't afford them.
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