Went out and bought myself a new copy of The Left Hand of Darkness, since my original is floating somewhere in Canada Land and requires an excavation to be found. Same beautiful edition - until I opened it and realised what a huge difference constant re-reading makes. My old book had been with me for around half a decade, and I'd read it at least ( Read more... )

Just to pull out of the hat of tricks when feeling the need to sound pretencious/extremely intellgience.

• Argumentum ad crumenam --- argument based on financial considerations (ho ho ho, $$$$)
  
• Argumentum ad hominem --- argument based on the principles of the opponent ("you are a fat cow, therefore you are wrong!")
  
• Argumentum ad ignoratiam --- ( Read more... )