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I went and read a sample of his work and it is horrible. Reading him is like spending the afternoon tongue-kissing one of those grey-lipped, high-cheeked, rennfairian princesses who speak in thees and thous and smell of non-alcoholic mead and garlic and lady speedstick. huh, i'm bleeding. i wonder how that happened. So I took a look at his friends, which are full of authors. All these shitty authors, none know the other, just networking, marketing, trolling for people like me. Hey guys, sorry, I'm one of those arrogant, stick-up-the-ass, holier-than-thou kind of readers. I like dialog that sounds like the way people talk, except when it isn't supposed to, but trust me, where you're using dialog, it is supposed to sound like the way people talk. Ok, ok, sure: when the omniscient crystal amulet is talking (through precision vibrations that generate voice-like harmonics within a human skull) to the attractive, feminine (yet muscular), deeply-conflicted, enraged, gentle, and transparently bisexual man-child, yes, then you do not need to write dialog that sounds like the way people speak. But you do need to at least remember the speaker is omniscient, and try to avoid every cliche since a bush caught fire and spoke to some dude in a cave. ok. i'm bored with myself. my puppy is in the yard licking up the cayenne pepper that i sprinkled to discourage him from digging. my arm is bleeding. i didn't win the lottery last night. i drank too much coffee. i am full of vitamins. i have a pot roast in the slow cooker. i want to pee. i wish i could read more. i bought hills bros coffee because luke was using it in his diner on the gilmore girls. it really isn't that bad. i ordered 900 sqft of hardwood flooring, setting a new record for the most expensive materials i've ever purchased for a DIY project. i was listening to NIN 'hurt' and i realized that i no longer connect to that song at all. it comes from a time that i remember through brown beer-bottle glass. that's a cedar, that's a cyprus, that's an elm, that's a maple, that's a magnolia, that's an oak, and so is that, and so is that, and that's a pine i haven't identified. the rosemary is in bloom as is the manzanita. out front, daffodils have come up out of nowhere. green tongues from unknowns bulbs have risen everywhere. rosebushes almost always have blooms here. mossy rocks and wind chimes and a birdbath. the fog comes in heavy at night and drips from the trees. i am going to plant blackberries on my property line, which may piss off my neighbors, but then again, i've never seen them within 200 yards of that fence. and then again, blackberry pie. |
those signs, Ye Olde Arsefuckerie, etc. The ye should be pronounced "The". Because the 'y' comes from the printers' translation into printer-characters of the, now abandoned, letter 'thorn'. thorn: Þ That makes me naÞan. |
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So, apparently, if you are a "thuh" pronouncer of "the", you should be a "yuh" pronouncer of "ye". |
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wikipedia on thorn I've never read any lovecraft. |
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as far as co-writing a novel - i'm willing to try. i don't know what nate and i could accomplish, but at least i would have a framework to write something. |
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Or not. Right? |
the people on mythbusters have that SF bayarea dorkununciation to them. |
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