Yesterday's Joyful Discovery

Via Langauge Log's The possessive Jesus of composition, we found this: here is my predictive text rewrite of The Elements of Style (1918).

There are sections that stand as found poetry.

Also, much of the advice is preferable to almost any other style guide I've ever read.

Visitation of the Dead

This morning's dream in part (we can skip the inevitable sections happening at an sf con, because all my dreams go there) involved playing with Big and Little on the bed. I knew they were dead, but accepted their presences. They were insubstantial walking through the laptop screen, poking paws through tablets. But at the same time I could still stroke Little's back and feel every bump of every vertebra just as I could in the months before she died.

Then my mother arrived, clutching a radio, and disgreeing with every word that was said on Farming Today. Again, I knew in-dream that she was dead.

September 2016

Read:

Shorts:

- Reading Together by Clive Tern (DSF)

- Th Fifth Lttr by S. Qiouyi Lu (DSF)

Novels:

- Firefall (Blindsight & Echopraxia) by Peter Watts (K)
- Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope (PG)

Non-fiction:

- Food puzzles for cats, Feeding for physical and emotional wellbeing by Leticia MS Dantas, Mikel M Delgado, Ingrid Johnson and CA Tony Buffington (http://jfm.sagepub.com/content/18/9/723.long)

- Ants trapped in nuclear bunker are developing their own society by Richa Malhotra (https://www.newscientist.com/article/2104632-ants-trapped-in-nuclear-bunker-are-developing-their-own-society/)

- Cognitive bias cheat sheet by Buster Benson (https://betterhumans.coach.me/cognitive-bias-cheat-sheet-55a472476b18#.5y6xg4tdh)