Nicholas Laughlin's blog etc.

"The antonym of God’s non-existent antonym is closer to God than God will ever be. Which, then, brings us closer to what we want to communicate: saying what we intend, or trying to say the opposite?"

— The UK Guardian publishes a new piece of short fiction by Jonathan Safran Foer today (in PDF format): the transcendent weirdness of words, the impossibility of stories, the magical properties of ink & paper.