Going Nucular waylon! with just a few grains

with just a few grains of salt

Nor is it a paradise of ideas

Then the extraordinary happens: Tyler receives a communication from his father

But Otis and Will were determined to become the first people to see what the deep ocean looks like

until Ashton shows up on the first day of school

Going Nucular waylon! with just a few grainsThe words that echo through Geoffrey Nunberg's brilliant new journey across the landscape of American language evoke exactly the tenor of our times. Nunberg has a wonderful ear for the new, the comic and the absurd. He pronounces that: "'Blog' is a syllable whose time has come," and that "You don't get to be a verb unless you're doing something right," with which he launches into the effect of Google on our collective consciousness. Nunberg hears the