"Oso trained in the brine pits of the Austerlanding-Brisotho crawled up onto his lean haunches. He wasn’t built very solidly, but like a recurved bow, a quivering spring. He was game for this."
The book starts conventionally (for this kind of book, anyway), with a search for the historical personage. The line had gone extinct. What few tracts remain with his name appended have been increasingly questioned as his autograph. Even the memory of him, in once-vital brains, has faded with timely attrition. What remains are the references to him, in his students’ and friends’ works. How can a man be remade from words? Sooner reconstitute the dust of his corpse then reanimate scribbles on a page.
This user is a physician. |
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fr-2 | Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français. |
la-1 | Hic usor simplici latinitate contribuere potest. |
This user recognizes that linguistic change is a natural and desirable aspect of human language. |
they | This user considers singular they standard English usage. |
A, B, and C | This user prefers the serial comma. |
; | This user's favorite punctuation is semicolons; he likes using them a lot. |
SORTITION: "The suffrage by lot is natural to democracy, as that by choice is to aristocracy". |
99% | This user supports the Occupy Movement. |
C++-2 | This user is an intermediate C++ programmer. |
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"Oso trained in the brine pits of the Austerlanding-Brisotho crawled up onto his lean haunches. He wasn’t built very solidly, but like a recurved bow, a quivering spring. He was game for this."
The book starts conventionally (for this kind of book, anyway), with a search for the historical personage. The line had gone extinct. What few tracts remain with his name appended have been increasingly questioned as his autograph. Even the memory of him, in once-vital brains, has faded with timely attrition. What remains are the references to him, in his students’ and friends’ works. How can a man be remade from words? Sooner reconstitute the dust of his corpse then reanimate scribbles on a page.
This user is a physician. |
en | This user is a native speaker of the English language. |
fr-2 | Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français. |
la-1 | Hic usor simplici latinitate contribuere potest. |
This user recognizes that linguistic change is a natural and desirable aspect of human language. |
they | This user considers singular they standard English usage. |
A, B, and C | This user prefers the serial comma. |
; | This user's favorite punctuation is semicolons; he likes using them a lot. |
SORTITION: "The suffrage by lot is natural to democracy, as that by choice is to aristocracy". |
99% | This user supports the Occupy Movement. |
C++-2 | This user is an intermediate C++ programmer. |
js-2 | This user is an intermediate JavaScript programmer. |
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