“‘Shut up,’ he explained.”
A short literary passage that seems to me increasingly apropos to our culture of rising intolerance and cancellation — see this egregiously silly case, for example — appears at Ring Lardner, The Young Immigrants (Indianapolis: BobbsMerrill, 1920), 78: “‘Shut up,’ he explained.” That brief sentence comes forcibly to my mind as […]
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