"Oh great and mighty Master Li, pray impart to me the Secret of Wisdom!"

"Take a large bowl. Fill it with equal measures of fact, fantasy, history, mythology, science, superstition, logic, and lunacy. Darken the mixture with bitter tears, brighten it with howls of laughter, toss in three thousand years of civilization, bellow kan pei--which means ( Read more... )

70% of my class murdered the word limit too, so now all I need to worry about is how atrocious the prose, the plot, the emotional arc (woefully incomplete I'm pretty sure) and the character-sympathy/characterization are. *A*)/ JOYFUL JOYFUL oh also my new printer can print double-sided it's so fancy.

Better yet, I also picked up my first ever ( Read more... )

'dead as a herring,' 'thither and back.' I wish I had been born in a time when talking and writing like that were still the vogue. I would be a much happier child with fishies and extraneous syllables in my vocabulary.
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Presentiments are strange things! and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which ( Read more... )