Audible. Author narrates.

I've been thinking a lot about the way in which cultures (particularly the preferred representation of a culture) are constructed through the creation and compilation of proper dictionaries, anthologies, syllabi, canonical lists, etc. I keep coming back to how these tasks are always necessarily exclusionary and ultimately create a "culture" that cannot really be representative of the culture being represented. It's also funny to me that the impetus for some of the earliest lexicographical endeavours was to preserve the language--which always implies stasis in a moment and can't really be done to a thing that's alive. That narrative is somewhat secondary to the story of William Minor (and it's certainly an interesting one and well worth the read), but it's the one that interests me right now.