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Author Archives: JE
Note to Self
Pedantry is an occupational hazard for someone in my profession(s), so I’ve been trying to nail down the salient trait(s) of a pedant, mostly in order to watch for them in myself. A few stabs at the target: A pedant … Continue reading
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All-Night Theater: Heistus Interruptus
Last night at the movies: a daring raid on an 24-hour check-cashing place on Halloween night was planned by a thirtyish Laura Antonelli and a middle-aged Jim Backus, who had the Hawaiian shirt of Thurston Howell III and the mannerisms … Continue reading
18th Century Mashup: White’s MISTRESS MASHAM’S REPOSE
I came to T.H. White’s brilliant fantasy Mistress Masham’s Repose (Putnam, 1946): immediately after reading two much inferior (but not worthless) books. One was by White himself, The Age of Scandal (Putnam, 1950), a social history of the later 18th … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures in the Public Domain, books, fantasy, history, language, sff, words
Tagged T.H. White
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Is Humankind Toast?
I’m really worried about LLMs developing consciousness, and also my toaster. It is, after all, one of the most advanced toasters ever made, capable of toasting four slices of bread at a time, which is more than a human could … Continue reading
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King Leer
Reading some Middle English this afternoon, I came across the word lere, meaning “face”. ”That’s got to be where leer comes from,” I said, with the unwavering confidence of a folk etymologist, and then my confidence wavered a bit and … Continue reading
Last Night at the Movies: Eucatastrophe
Wild dreams last night, part of which seemed to take place in cat heaven. I was in the house where I grew up and we were looking frantically for my daughter’s cat, Clarkus Maximus. We found him, safe inside in … Continue reading
Posted in ancient art, art, cats, dream
Tagged Fritz the Cat Leiber Pfundstein Enge
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Swords Against Silence
It’s been sometimes sad, sometimes joyous, but always a pleasure to hang out with people at Windy City Pulp and Paper and celebrate the life and work of Howard Andrew Jones. Too many stories were shared for me to scribble … Continue reading
Posted in books, fantasy, Heroic Fiction League, Myth & Legend, sff, sword-and-sorcery, writing
Tagged Howard Andrew Jones, Windy City Pulp & Paper
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