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[coalescent]

So, last night Naomi and I went to Oxford to see Margaret Atwood being interviewed by Peter Kemp (fiction editor for The Sunday Times). All in all, I was pleasantly surprised. She was an entertaining interviewee, much given to wit and digression (one of the questions later, from someone clearly looking for the answer for his A-level coursework, was

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[pikelet]

I feel like you've fallen under the spell of some malevolent power, come to enslave us all.

You don't really love her! It's a spell!

[snowking]

I heard she eats people

[coalescent]

Like you never have.

Why won't LJ let me edit my post to remove typos?

[snowking]

Because you're insane.

[truecatachresis]

LJ is broken; it won't let you Edit Entries without being logged in, but it won't retrieve the entries without you putting your username and password in on the edit page, which it won't let you do if you're already logged in.

What superb thinking. Download the client; that works fine for editing.

[coalescent]

Every client I've tried on this Mac has crashed. I'm not sure why. Ah well, I'll just do the editing when I get home.

[snowking]

Umm, I just edited several entries today, both personal and community.

[truecatachresis]

Well, that's odd. I was having exactly the same problem as coalescent, and the symptoms for me were exactly as I described. If I tried editing using the web, I was told that no username had been supplied, although I was logged in. If I was not logged in, I couldn't get that far even.