chiba city, circa the future

[travisezell]

I used to do these meme/test things all the time. This one is stolen from shalora, someone I do not know who is five hours younger than me (presuming she was born on the west coast).

* Grab the nearest book

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[take_the_ant]

By fighting his wife in the presence of customers and by buying badmeat he ruined his business.

[travisezell]

Good one.

The Internet: Where Strangers Do What They Are Told.

[lx]

"I felt a kind of vertigo, as if I were merely plunging from one world to another, and in each I arrived shortly after the end of the world had taken place." (If on a winter's night, Italo Calvino)

This is John C. W., btw, if my journal has been too oblique to recognize of late. You coming to Incubator on the 13th?

Re: The Internet: Where Strangers Do What They Are Told.

[travisezell]

I know who this is. You're "Ix" in like half of my social networking whatsits. I'm going to try, but some meetings need to be made/scheduled so I won't promise. It' sin my phone/calendar, though.

that's roman numeral sixty to you, buddy!

[lx]

I just totally read that "sin my phone/calendar."

Oh wait: I guess because that's what it says.

Re: that's roman numeral sixty to you, buddy!

[travisezell]

oh, 60? Not 9?

My mistake, and apologies.

As to the typo: well, what can I say? We're none us perfect. Anyway, I'm not. I'm none of me perfect.

[writinguphill]

Tremble's voice reminded him that dinner was served and he crossed the hall with the dog to the dining-room, a room beautifully furnished with a Regency mahogany twin pedestal table surrounded by Hepplewhite chairs; there was an inlaid mahogany sideboard of the same period against one wall and the lighting was pleasantly subdued from the brass sconces on the walls.

"Dearest Mary Jane" by Betty Neels