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Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Small hurrah on Shrove Tuesday
10 comments:
Alas, I must once again remind large numbers of Chinese salesmen and other worldwide peddlers that if they fall into the Gulf of Spam, they will be eaten by roaming Balrogs. The rest of you, lovers of grace, poetry, and horses (nod to Yeats--you do not have to be fond of horses), feel free to leave fascinating missives and curious arguments.
Thank you, kind Tim! And I do like fiddly research when in the mood...
ReplyDeleteBig hurrah! I'm happy to know there's another Marly Youmans novel in my reading future, someday.
ReplyDeleteI'm about halfway through the first read of a MS I finished late last year. It seems okay for a first draft. There are some deliberate historical errors. I guess that deliberateness makes them not-errors?
Thanks, Scott.
DeleteWell, you knew what you were doing, so... Maybe call it a slightly alternative historical novel!
Congrats on getting that draft done! Wonderful news.
ReplyDeleteWhee! Was a great relief, as I will have to take a longish break to do something else, and I hated to lose my thread.
DeleteBravo! I say that you should include the glossary. I guess that in the age of Google and Wikipedia this is less pressing. Still, the glossary would put readers on notice that you use words not found in modern English, or found only with a different meaning.
ReplyDeleteAs well as vocabulary, it has all sorts of little clarifications about things commonly misrepresented, so... I might!
DeleteYay, you! Anxious to hear more about it!
ReplyDeleteI'm a secretive sort!
DeleteYou wild man! I'm barely back from Paris and will take a look once I get a bit organized.
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