Quote of the day
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
Jeanne Martinet

Born: March 24, 1920
Died: November 6, 2018  (aged 98)
Bio: Jeanne Martinet was a French semiotician and a proprietor of a semiotics school. Her husband was the eminent linguist André Martinet.
Known for:
- The Art of Mingling (1992)
 - Truer than true romance (2001)
 - Etiquette for the End of the World (2012)
 - The faux pas survival guide (1996)
 






