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Well, most of us have worries. . . . I have. Slugs, you know—and the difficulty of getting linen properly darned—and not being able to get sugar candy for making my damson gin. Oh, lots of little things—it seems unnatural that you shouldn’t have any worries at all.
— Miss Jane Marple (Christie character)Meta
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It’s About Time
Carpe diem. Time and tide wait for no man. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may… These are three different ways to say roughly the same thing. They seem so obvious and so trite that it’s hard to turn them into … Continue reading
Player Piano: One Down, Thirteen to Go
I finished Player Piano last night. Not bad for a first novel. It’s not quite the Vonnegut of Slaughterhouse-Five or Cat’s Cradle, but there are glimpses of the author he would become. I found it easy to identify with the … Continue reading