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Bouvard on Language, Inquiry, and Self-Becoming

Dennis Bouvard · X / Twitter · Jul 10, 2026 · 1 min read

I wonder what Erika Kirk's approval ratings are, and whether she has helpful supporters telling her she has cater to her critics and find better PR.

@slooperbia50068 I just write to follow and capture the line of inquiry as best I can.

@slooperbia50068 Maybe the line is just ahead of me. But almost everything I write follows up on some question raised for me by something I wrote previously. So in a sense it's already there.

@slooperbia50068 Maybe. It's a matter of language learning.

@slooperbia50068 Every language is a bit foreign, even our own.

@slooperbia50068 Always becoming something other than it was and therefore other than we know.

@slooperbia50068 Then what are your expectations of a piece of writing?

@slooperbia50068 Followable for whom, following which efforts?

@slooperbia50068 But I have given reasons for how I write--I have laid out certain stylistic prescriptions.

@slooperbia50068 Your guess would be right.

@slooperbia50068 Which prohibition?

@slooperbia50068 Anyway, he will certainly not write back.

@slooperbia50068 Would I know Tom O'Carroll?

@slooperbia50068 I remember.

@slooperbia50068 A little online Ulpan there.

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