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Shunwords
Recently, TOF happened upon the following list of words to avoid in one's scrivening and thought to share it with his Faithful Reader. ...
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I was mulling over some favorite tunes, and decided to make me a list. It soon grew faster than a politician's spending. Herewith, said...
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A discussion meandered past TOF's optics the other day and put him in mind of a post of his from way back in 2011. This proved at the t...
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Another Fine Mess. There is no answer to boredom. -- Katherine Fullerton Gerould N o one will read your story if he/she is bored. So...
How long ago was this written? It's funny, because part of me wonders if I'm ever going to buy a hardcover novel again. My Kindle is just too convenient, and strangely enough the deeper and more complicated the work, the more I'm glad I'm reading it on a medium with a built-in dictionary. (I just had to look up what the heck an "ephemeris" was in January Dancer, for example. And all those bizarre Indian clothing terms...) Perhaps it's simple techno-fetishism, but I simply enjoy it more.
ReplyDeleteIt was 20 years ago, almost to the day. (Probably no coincidence, but instead why TOF ran across it.)
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