JSF
When I was a kid I was very precocious and very weird, I guess. I used to have all these outfits I insisted on wearing, like bow ties and glitter vests [ed.---WTF?!], and I would wear rings on all my fingers.
** Okay, so you know you want to know what Michiko Kakutani thinks of Saturday
Mr. McEwan has not only produced one of the most powerful pieces of post-9/11 fiction yet published, but also fulfilled that very primal mission of the novel: to show how we - a privileged few of us, anyway - live today
And yes, she uses the word limn.






Do you have a pet peeve about the word "limn?" I do as well. It's one of those words that's never ever used in conversation, and for that reason sounds pretentious in print, at least to me. But heck, if the NYTimes likes it...
Posted by: Kit Stolz | March 18, 2005 at 11:28 AM
Kakutani has a noted infatuation with the word. Others have been critical of her widespread use of limn for the exact reasons you mention.
No one knows why the NYTimes keeps letting it pass into print.
Posted by: Scott | March 18, 2005 at 12:01 PM