Auto-disenvoweler (doesn't handle sometimes y except at the end of a word).
I bet someone here already wrote one, but it was quicker to write my own than to check (Henry at Crooked Timber wanted it). So, maybe it does someone here some good.
Apropos of the power of will, has anyone yet read _A Handbook of American Prayer_, by Lucius Shepard?
Its premise is that prayers can be a mechanism to bring about circumstances by which the desired can be obtained. It combines the two American stories Xeger and Dave mention above in an interesting permutation.
The best parts of the book are the prayers (and the "joke" told by the man in Nogales). You can find one online, but the best, in my view, is the Prayer for Elisabeth Elko's Divorce Action.
Shepard, especially, in the first half of the book is brilliant as usual in his methodical description of characters' psychology.
Anyway, it's just the will thing that got me thinking.
I can't believe nobody's posted yet about this book title mashup thread (also continued on CT)
Last summer, I made candle salad based on TNH's recipe, and I have a tip for those who want to try it: cut the bananas thus (that link may or may not come through -- if not, cut-and-paste from http://novalis.org/images/howto/candle-salad-howto.png ). My friends, none of whom have even remotely clean minds, enjoyed it greatly.
Ashni, some fannish friends of mine currently taking Anthro 121 say it's not stellar, but they're working, with some success, to improve it by their contributions.
As for AVH, John Farrell has it exactly right about selection -- I visited this summer, and couldn't find anything I was looking for. Lucius Shepard and Tim Powers are the only ones I can remember right now, but I looked for many names major and less major, and the cupboard was bare.
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