Three Monkeys Online

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A Sense of Proportion

From Saturday’s Irish Times review of Susan Sontag’s final collection of essays:

“Sontag incurred disproportionate approbrium for her initial reaction to the events of September 11, 2001”

I suppose it would also be disproportionate to ask the sub-editor who overlooked a howler like “approbrium” (opprobrium + approbation?) to submit to a yakuza-style yubitsume ritual?

These, alas, are the kind of things that get my goat…