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And hours to go until I sleep. And hours to go until I sleep. -
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Is there a name for this particular story trope: some utterly innocuous-seeming detail at the start of a story that in fact, looked at very closely and perhaps with the benefit of hindsight, gives the whole game away. Obviously such keys can be camouflaged elsewhere, but the start has some unique advantages when it comes to hiding stuff ( Read more... ) -
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Looking back across that first week of our acquaintance I was struck by how much about how she spoke, dressed, behaved seemed designed, if not precisely to rebuff, then to make clear that if a certain degree of access had been granted much more was withheld and was likely to continue to be. Even when she at last undressed for me in her room her ( Read more... ) -
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I often suspect I'm not doing my opinions any favors by having them. -
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Breaking Bad 1.1
We're trying to identify the colors before seriously guessing at what they mean, but Gilligan & co. are definitely doing a scheme.
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There was no test, no vision quest, no institution empowered to hand out credentials. It was instead accepted that anyone willing to present himself as something as ridiculous as a magician might as well be regarded as one. Theirs, too, was a society uniquely resistant to hierarchizing. Since it has never been remotely clear what magic is - or on ( Read more... ) -
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If it be not today yet it will crumb. The breadiness is all. -
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We really liked Glow. Marc Maron, who's normally completely unfunny and intolerable, is actually very amusing and interesting on it. Seems like there's a fairly large group of comedians who aren't very funny but can be made very funny by others' writing. Russell Brand's another - fun in the Aldous Snow movies but just godawful on his own. Sarah ( Read more... ) -
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Believe what you hear first. Believe what those most like you say. Believe what those like those you've trusted say. Believe what puts you and those you trust in a good light. Believe what puts those you don't trust in a bad light. Believe what makes you feel safe. Believe what makes you feel that some effort you're already invested in will make ( Read more... )