Roy Blount loves to tell stories, and his recent book, Alphabet Juice,
is a collection of stories about words — often in stream of
consciousness digressions and arranged loosely like a dictionary.
Roy Blount Jr. once said, "Language seems to me intrinsically comic —
noises of the tongue, lips, larynx, and palate rendered in ink on
Taken from the Ernest Becker Listserv Discussion Archives
