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I dreamed I was being tested on Shakespeare's "Withdrawn," but I couldn't remember if it was a comedy, tragedy, or history.
Myrlin Hermes writes: Strangely enough, you turned up in my dream last night, emerging from a TARDIS. Perhaps a subconscious reaction to your habit of blogging from the future? At any rate, I'm tickled by the image, which seems somehow fitting, given the way you have quite suddenly and wonderfully dropped into my consciousness.
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WAXING GIBBOUSThe semicolon appears to be more than one-half but not fully illuminated by the reading lamp. The fraction of the semicolon's dot that is illuminated is increasing, like a visibly waxing moon. This semicolon appears before the Full Semicolon and after the First Quarter Semicolon. The amount of the semicolon that we can see will grow larger and larger every day, "like a comet to the eye of the astronomer."
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 Is it true, as Momus
suggests, that there are "few tales which would not be improved by the
addition of the phrase 'suddenly, a shot rang out'"? Decide for
yourself as we alter the opening lines of . . . FRANKENSTEIN by Marry Wollstonecraft ShelleyYou will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking. Suddenly, a shot rings out.
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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:
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Even a squiggle isn’t immune to the corruption inherent in transliteration. Here's our pictorial study of how Laurence Sterne's elegant and eloquent squiggle (d)evolved through various editions of Tristram Shandy. We call it " Lost in Transliteration." |
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INSTRUCTIONS: Click on the puzzle image below to reveal one possible solution.
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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:
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By k2/Ken Keirns. See original here.
Terry
Patron Saint of the 80s
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Is it true, as Momus
suggests, that there are "few tales which would not be improved by the
addition of the phrase 'suddenly, a shot rang out'"? Decide for
yourself as we alter the opening lines of . . . CORELLI'S MANDOLIN by Louis de BernieresDr Iannis had enjoyed a satisfactory day in which none of his patients had died or got any worse. Suddenly, a shot rang out.
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“So who knows, perhaps your ship will come in with the next shortage.” —Learning Today
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New on Kindle: our Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns by Sound. Also of note: in Robert Altman's Images, a children's book within the film likens the voice of a unicorn to the song of a butterfly: "Straight past his nose zoomed seven enormous butterflies, with eyes like stars and bright blue wings, and each one was humming. And then Hero started to tremble, for it seemed to be him who was humming—not with his usual tuneless hum but a butterfly's humming, just as if one had flown down his throat."  Robert Altman's Images concerns a story about unicorns.
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WAXING GIBBOUS (PROGRESSIVE)"The semicolon corresponds to a rising." —Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963)
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Thanks to the Wacky Web Sites blog, who covered our atlas of blank maps: According to webmaster Craig Conley, there are fundamental differences between a blank page and a blank map. A blank page is empty, whereas a blank map suggests space and orientation and is still designed by a cartographer. Conley takes this one step further, presenting blank maps suggested by history, folklore, or literature such as a landscape purified by snowfall, the unknown path Cleopatra must have taken after Actium, or what Babel looked like before it was built. |
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Is it true, as Momus
suggests, that there are "few tales which would not be improved by the
addition of the phrase 'suddenly, a shot rang out'"? Decide for
yourself as we alter the opening lines of . . . THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER by Mark Twain "TOM!" No answer. "TOM!" No answer. "What's gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!" No answer. Suddenly, a shot rang out.
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