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[links] Link salad goes to China Grove
MIND MELD: Who are Your Literary Influences in the Ongoing Conversation of Science Fiction? — In which I am quoted, along with many other fine writers.
Gurney Journey on écorché — My new word for today.
Bad Astronomy on job satisfaction
?otD: Why do those people just keep on looking to the east?
2/25/2009
Body movement: n/a (travel day)
This morning’s weigh-in: 219.4
Currently reading: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade by Herman Melville; Black Blade Blues by John Pitts
Posted: 5:15 am Wed February 25 2009 |
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tetar
February 25th, 2009 at 8:08 amA) Jay, the Confidence Man isn’t that long. lol If it’s not to your taste, why keep plowing? Life’s too short. If a book fails to work for me I chuck it over my shoulder and grab another, on the theory that reading time will run out long before superb books will.
B) Isn’t it weird how “flayed” sounds so harsh while the same word, with the same meaning, in French, écorché, sounds all elegant and refined?
Serial killers have a lot to learn about terminology, methinks.