Mario Montalbetti and the Nightmare of Language

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“I suppose I always knew I didn’t come here to have a good time. But after four years, language has become what history was to Stephen Dedalus: a nightmare from which I’m trying to awake.”

-MARIO MONTALBETTI

“I was never aware of another option but to question everything,” wrote the linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky. His former philosophy student, the…