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07/30/09
But since one section stuck out to me, and others are picking on the use of the language...
If we are getting picky about language, what bothered me was "The semitransparent veils were stiff with grime and they hung still and useless like furled, ruined sails"
Furled means rolled up, but he describes the boy as layering sheets.
It looks he thinks furled sails are idle sails (true), but doesn't realize furled's primary meaning is rolled up.
Doesn't mean it's not a good story, and interesting - it's just a trifle over-adjectived.
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"His bones held his body erect, like an internal support system".
Both are pretty obviously wrong.
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It's true. Give her a ban on using words that end in -ly and her books would be about 8 pages long.
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Really? I thought it was the fantasy prequel to "There Will Be Dragons"
I drink your healing potion!
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Would have been funnier if I'd typed "There Will Be Blood" like I'd meant to. :(
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Yeah, it kinda does. Probably built with an offline, client-side CMS (The source says FrontPage but I won't hold that against them.) and FTP'd manually too.
It's rather refreshing if you ask me since it avoids the worst mistakes of those naive days. The navigation links are nicely organized, you click 'em and, sure enough, they lead exactly to what they say they will. The pages don't require JavaScript to work (A particularly strong peeve of mine with many modern sites.). There's no angry fruit salad of clip-art. The markup to content ratio is very good because they use CSS for presentation.
Kinda retro but it's functional and does what it's designed to do.
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It's the END OF THE WOERLDZ!!!
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Fuckin tautological internet memes...
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I'm in your intarwebs, predictin' the end timez.
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Have you guys READ any Mercedes Lackey? Because, uh, I haven't.
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[vandonovan.livejournal.com]
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The whorl of puckered skin above each exquisite knuckle recalled the vortex of water from the canoe's paddle when I and beloved she punted down the River KhveiC'chss during the Festival of Gwoanghk the Purple whilst we first proclaimed our undying love or whatever.
Onward her fingers flowed on this sunny spring afternoon, so like that other sunny spring afternoon when it was the river that was flowing. On and on her dancing fingers, these elongated toes of the hand, did flow unto the promise of her fingernails.
Ah, such gems of fingernails, softer and more jewel-like than actual gems but hard enough to raise red furrows along the fertile fields of my rugged back. The opalescent sheen of her glorious nails reminded me of the shells of the Jazix'gish prawns I and she dined upon that magic evening after the river punting but before she revealed to me the test results from her doctor."
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And it washes it's hands this time, or it gets the Gom Jabar.
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I've had four hours' sleep - does it show?
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On the other hand dragons are magical creatures and many magical creatures (harpies, chimeras, gorgons, etc.) often fuse the features of totally different classes of vertebrates together, so maybe dragons can have mammary glands.
This is your public service announcement from the Dead Serious But Unintentionally Funny Science Education Department.
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Um... so how will the V reboot work, then? 'Cos that new Diana definitely has teh bewbies.
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