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Yes, those evil invisible commas are quite troublesome. Scan studies, too, enter the picture: ... & etc.
Commented Mar 5, 2012 on SMILE: The Astonishing Destructive Power of Positive Thinking at Download The Universe
SMILE: The Astonishing Destructive Power of Positive Thinking
SMILE: The Astonishing Power of a Simple Act, by Ron Gutman. TED Books, 2011. Kindle /Nook / iBookstore Reviewed by David Dobbs Sometimes when I encounter writing I especially admire, I like to type it out. Say, Nabokov, in The Luzhin Defense, describing his heroine taking a bath amid marital ...
I'd love to see more of the west coast, but I can't afford it. When will Washington do something about these structural tourism problems???
Commented Aug 15, 2011 on In Which Charlie Stross Complains That California Is Insufficiently Terraformed... at Brad DeLong
In Which Charlie Stross Complains That California Is Insufficiently Terraformed...
The reason that the Lincoln Town Car is available as a "free" rental car "upgrade" is that *nobody wants to drive a Lincoln Town Car*: its gas mileage is too poor for anybody driving The Five to want it, and its handling characteristics are such as to make driving it on The One a knuckle-whitenin...
John Irving would double down on this, I'd bet.
Commented Feb 3, 2011 on "Storage of corpses is important." at WWdN: In Exile
"Storage of corpses is important."
Warren wrote about having to kill a story: The lesson is simply this: you just have to recognise that, no matter how much weight you put behind it and how much you tart it up,sometimes a story just doesn’t bloody work, and you have to take it behind the stables and shoot it through the head. No...
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