I love it when you speak space cornish.

[hirez]

Yet more people telling me that they read this thing but don't understand the half of it. As if it were my problem.

Life's hard when you're a guerilla ontologist. Which is, I don't know, putting a name to something that's just normal. In that I can and do say please and thank you and get invited to weddings and served lager in normal pubs where

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[sarah_mum]

What do they want, subtitles?

[maluse]

I read the last sentence as "waiting for things to turn up in the past", which sounds like it ought to mean something profound (or perhaps just that one is an accidental historian).

[hirez]

You're worryingly close to the truth of the matter.

[avocadovpx]

>> they read this thing but don't understand the half of it.

Obviously the polarity is reversed in their feature/bug detector.

>> Life's hard when you're a guerilla ontologist. Which is, I don't know, putting a name to something that's just normal. In that I can and do say please and thank you and get invited to weddings and served lager in normal pubs where they have football, but sooner or later the mask will slip and I'll say something or think out of turn and then they're all staring at me like stuffed owls. Even in bloody metal pubs where you might think that a certain lack of conformism might be tolerated after several pints.

I would have to read the first 30 pages of the novel this paragraph starts, even if the next 29 of them were ghostwritten by Clive Cussler and zombie Barbara Cartland. There's quite a lot to be said for well-placed details and an attitude.