Monthly Archives: April 2009

whether ’tis nobler in the mind to doubly miss the point

Posted on Thursday, 2009 April 16 by Anton

A little incident in folk grammar, funny to me at least. I wrote a sentence containing . . . which led to reconstructing in my mind . . . because . . . which led to mentally reconstructing . . . seemed wrong: everyone knows you don’t put … Continue reading →

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Incandescence

Posted on Tuesday, 2009 April 14 by Anton

Greg Egan complains about sloppy reviews of his latest novel: About half the reviews of Incandescence made at least one of the following false assertions: The Splinter orbits a neutron star. Rakesh visits the Splinter. The relationship between the novel’s … Continue reading →

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de-skinned

Posted on Thursday, 2009 April 09 by Anton

April 9 is CSS Naked Day, a concept amusing enough that I installed the WordPress plugin to comply with it. As I should have expected, it makes this blog rather less readable than it was before I converted from Blogger … Continue reading →

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deathist movie

Posted on Thursday, 2009 April 09 by Anton

In Renaissance (2006) there’s a Big Sinister Corporation whose advertising tagline is “Health, Beauty, Longevity.” Oo, scary! I don’t think we’re ever told what Avalon sells (vitamins? cosmetics? medical treatment?) but it doesn’t matter. The noirish visual style suffices to … Continue reading →

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