Adrienne

“I find it a hard matter to settle to business after so much leisure and pleasure.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary Of Samuel Pepys

“Rather than thinking of books as a way of embalming language, of rendering it fixed and dead for eternity (or at least of trapping and caging it so it doesn’t move around quite so much), we can think of them as maps and guidebooks to help people navigate language’s living, moving splendor. Every atlas eventually becomes a history book, but a globe is still a glorious thing to feel spinning under your hands with potential.”
― Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

“Sending someone all of the possible birthday party emoji is extra festive: great! But sending someone all of the possible phallic emoji (say, the eggplant and the cucumber and the corncob and the banana) is NOT extra sexxaayy: that’s a weird salad.”
― Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

“Writing and weaving are both acts of creation by bringing together. A storyteller is a spinner of yarns, and the internet's founding metaphor is of a web.”
― Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language