Monthly Archives: May 2017

less than fifty years later

Posted on Saturday, 2017 May 27 by Anton

I’ve read Heinlein’s Red Planet three times, starting at age seven or eight, and each time I soon forgot most of the plot. One thing that stuck with me was that the school’s new head signaled his evil by ordering … Continue reading →

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questions of emphasis

Posted on Tuesday, 2017 May 23 by Anton

In Sherlock episode “The Lying Detective”, the phrase serial killer is uttered many times, always stressing the first word – as if the second were a given, even when (for the speakers) any killings are hypothetical. That impaired my enjoyment of … Continue reading →

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