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Aug. 19th, 2008 12:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
1. 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: 2008-08-22 01:17 pm (UTC)Oh, dear. When you've been an editor too long, I think, you lose your sense of humor. Because you've had too many angry, screaming voice mail messages from crazy authors who decide to hold their manuscripts hostage because they didn't like the copyediting...yes, really!