Back in February, I’d come across a word—catachresis—in my American Heritage Dictionary. I forget what I had been looking for originally. Catatonic? Doesn’t matter. Catachresis means the “misapplication of a word or phrase” such as “the use of blatant to mean ‘flagrant’.” Mary and I have been podcasting KPBS’s A Way With Words (AWWW) andContinue reading “A Way With Words”
Author Archives: Norm Benson
Rejection by the rejected
Nate Carpenter, the protagonist in my story The God of Trees muses, “Unlike relationships, my line of work is dirt simple…you grow trees, you cut trees, you plant trees. I’ve planted thousands of seedlings during my life, some grow, some don’t. It all boils down to location and luck.” I’ve been posting the first chaptersContinue reading “Rejection by the rejected”
Nullius in Verba 