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"...I found I couldn’t write in English unless I thought of it as somehow translating thoughts. I broke my writer’s block by first typing in a single quotation mark." (Michael Emmerich)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32703696
is it too long to fit in the margins?
December 21, 2025 at 4:10 AM
but also someone else did take out all the weird capitalizations
December 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
through her efforts the fascism is more competent (or at least appears to be) than it would have otherwise been with this gaggle of nimrods

I hope that the "I saw that it was evil but it would have been even worse without me" she is laying the groundwork for does not work
but I fear it might
December 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Mariam Petrosyan's "The Gray House." It is multi-POV, but the main character and two other important ones are in wheelchairs.
(disclosure: I translated it)
December 3, 2025 at 2:17 AM
or it would have been anywhere on the scale from "long and expensive" to "requiring personal presence in the country for a prolonged period" to "impossible"
December 2, 2025 at 7:54 AM
in October 1958 an MIT frat pledge named Oliver R. Smoot has been repeatedly laid down head-to-toe to measure the length of the Harvard Bridge, thus establishing a non-standard unit of length, a smoot (~5'7")

Mr. Smoot went on to become head of ANSI and ISO, the world's preeminent standards bodies
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
we had a poseidon do perfect circles for 3 hours over the city 2 days ago
(out of patuxet river naval air station)
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 AM
(son of mario monje, also mario, was my classmate in high school)
November 2, 2025 at 2:48 AM