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Aug. 19th, 2008 12:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theholyinnocent1. A photo of the actual Arundel tomb, from World's Worst Camera Phone (and courtesy of the missus):
(It was a couple weeks ago that I heard Roseanne Cash read Larkin's "Arundel Tomb" on NPR, which had prompted me posting the poem then. It's prompted me to reassess him as a writer; previously I was not too appreciative of his work.)
2. Ladies, your dream man is here.. Damn, when these mail-order bride things go bad, they GO BAD.
3. I hereby declare it my personal mission in life to preserve the semicolon. Why? The semicolon is sexy. Friends, join with me: Use a semicolon today!
(It was a couple weeks ago that I heard Roseanne Cash read Larkin's "Arundel Tomb" on NPR, which had prompted me posting the poem then. It's prompted me to reassess him as a writer; previously I was not too appreciative of his work.)
2. Ladies, your dream man is here.. Damn, when these mail-order bride things go bad, they GO BAD.
3. I hereby declare it my personal mission in life to preserve the semicolon. Why? The semicolon is sexy. Friends, join with me: Use a semicolon today!
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Date: 2008-08-19 05:23 pm (UTC)Holy.Fuck. I vote we revive the practice of tarring and feathering for this cocksucker.
Huh. I didn't realize the semi-colon was in such dire straits; I use it all the time. (There's my contribution to the cause.) And if the work product of my bosses is anything to go by, the hot little punctuation mark is a mainstay of legal writing.
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Date: 2008-08-20 05:53 pm (UTC)the hot little punctuation mark is a mainstay of legal writing
At last, something positive about the legal profession! :)