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Posted on entry Slushkiller ::: March 21, 2006, 10:53 AM:
"Empirical storm troopers" is wonderful; as unintentional meaning goes, it's almost as poetic as some of those randomly generated spam subject lines.

The we-can-only-publish-seven-titles-a-year letter has a gap in logic. I.e., what about next year? It tempts to between-lines-reading of the "I'm washing my hair" date excuse sort.

“Someone is undoubtedly going to publish your book” and “I would publish your book if I could” are not things editors say lightly? Said in person, I'd have no trouble believing it. In print, I'd be skeptical. I'm not a writer, so I've never received one, but it seems to me that this statement clashes with the overall, "It's a form rejection, don't take it too seriously" message. With writers trying to decide whether their particular rejection letter was of the form variety or not, and if not, what parts were intended only to spare their feelings.
Posted on entry Folksongs Are Your Friends ::: September 05, 2005, 10:24 PM:
Same goes for your mother asking you not to go out hunting on a particular day. Portents about weather, particularly when delivered by an old sailor who is not currently chatting up a country maid, are always worth heeding.

Does this mean "Bad Moon Rising" by CCR is actually an English folk ballad?

Do not, for any reason, mess with a man’s Stetson hat or a man who is wearing a Stetson.

Is tugging on Superman's cape or spitting into the wind OK?
Posted on entry Actually, no ::: June 19, 2005, 01:47 PM:
The Nazis weren't all that bad to their Allied prisoners (especially compared to the Japanese treatment of them) probably because of some asinine Aryan-blood-purity thing with the English and Americans. That Senator should have been specific, speaking about how the Nazis treated the Jews.

The real way Bush et al. are like the Nazis is in their ability to dehumanize (in their minds) those who are most different from them. The way they're like the Allies is being like the Allies of WWI-- sowing the wind by impoverishing and victimizing Iraqis the way the Allies did Germany at the end of the first World War.

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