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Jack Ketch features prominently, if transiently, in Neal Stephenson's new novel Quicksilver (published 9/23). It's set in Seventeenth Century Europe (and other places) and full of authentic, if obscure and dated, words...
I've never seen this before: Author releases new work, the first book of what is supposed to become a trilogy eventually. Dust jacket features not just the names but even the jacket designs of the second and third volulmes. Is it hubris or simply good planning?
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> Yep, I also only got it after Faldage's post.
I understood her meaning the second I read Connie's post. That's worrying...
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>I understood her meaning the second I read Connie's post. That's worrying...
:)
Is it still more worrying that I did also?
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me, three? 
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>>I understood her meaning the second I read Connie's post. That's worrying...
>Is it still more worrying that I did also?
At least you guys are regulars. I understood and I'm still a whatever-name-I'm-up-to-now.
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And I understood her immediately, also, if not tsuwner.
And, Faldo of the sometimes argumentative turn of mind, don't you think calling a little strip of bacon a 'rasher' automatically makes it taste better? A strip of bacon is not very exciting to anticipate--but a rasher? Ah! Now that's something to get up for!
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calling a little strip of bacon a 'rasher' automatically makes it taste better
That's the problem; it promises more than it delivers.
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it promises more than it delivers.
A rasher statement is hard to imagine, I'm afried.
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