Life is short. This indisputable fact of existence has driven human ingenuity since antiquity, whether through efforts to lengthen our liveswith medicine or shorten the amount of time we spend
"Our daily encounters with forgetting have not taught us enough about how much power it exercises over our lives, what reflections and feelings it evokes in different individuals, how even art and sci
Can language hide thoughts? This question was answered by Harald Weinrich in this volume's title essay, first published in 1966 as Linguistik der Luge. Weinrich's essay, now in its sixth printing in G
