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conulyAnd I do. It takes a knack, though, because people have the most interesting way of describing half-remembered details. As in: "So basically Its set in the past because theres villages and they wore dresses and you get the point."
I mean, I do, but.... (I'm not dragging it up to quote now, but one summary ran "I'm sure it's set in Roman times because there's sand" and it turned out the book was Shabanu, which does have sand but is definitely not set in Ancient Rome, nor near it either temporally, culturally, or physically.)
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I mean, I do, but.... (I'm not dragging it up to quote now, but one summary ran "I'm sure it's set in Roman times because there's sand" and it turned out the book was Shabanu, which does have sand but is definitely not set in Ancient Rome, nor near it either temporally, culturally, or physically.)
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Writers Are More Prolific When They Cluster
Charles Dickens and the Linguistic Art of the Minor Character (Note: Just because Dickens is the first citation for a number of common expressions, that does NOT mean he coined them. He may have, or he may simply have been the first to publish works using those words/phrases.)
Black Panthers in the 1960s: a rare intimate look – in pictures
The Americans Who Fought Fascism in Spain and Stuck Around for D-Day
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Date: 2019-06-12 04:14 pm (UTC)