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Librarian and Textician § Inopinum intactumque – Martianus Capella
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I first read 1984 circa 1964
Tried to reread 1984 circa 2024
DNF so fast – tendentious & booooorrrriiinng
Animal Farm? ✔ still readable
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... and here I was
thinking six was a deep number ...
That approach might be too verbal?
Martin Rees notwithstanding?
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from 1805 ...
a novel that also features
an excessively tormented
bibliographical history
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Surely classical rhetoric
can offer up some gristly formulation
to encapsulate that deft move?
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"I've tried Stoic ataraxia"
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Biggest rib-tickle so far in 2025
... pursuit ... options ... hope ...
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Once upon a time
I contemplated pasting
ἀταραξία
onto my office door
finally deciding
provocation would show
unseemly initiative
yet
clear waste of effort
carried far more weight
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When you no longer care
or even know
who it was, that so-and-so,
you'll be there
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Inopinum intactumque
web.archive.org/web/20090508...
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Some have noted the commotion under the coffin (or bier in more correct terms 😉) This is the funeral of a fox - except the fox is still alive and fleeing his own funeral with a chicken in his jaws!
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Oxford comma excepted 😀
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First page, line 13
I spot a dot
after the word "townie"
Lots more dots follow
so not all that sparse
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Ergo, you cannot
start a novel with «and»
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But. Counterexample.
The Rules of Attraction / Bret Easton Ellis
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die prescriptivism die
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Still doing that inside of WordPress
[ control ]
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Capitalizing every character
• destroys information about internal uppercasing
• overlooks typographic alternatives
• resembles prehistoric computer output