How a Book is Born
Best book ever, or best book EVER?
Catherine models our bookmark!
LeBron James reads The Hunger Games in the locker room!
Wow… I can’t believe how much of this is recent fiction! ^LB
Source: flavorwire.com
For example, in Year 1, that useless letter ‘c’ would be dropped to be replased by either ‘k’ or ‘s’, and likewise ‘x’ would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which ‘c’ would be retained would be in the ‘ch’ formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might well reform ‘w’ spelling, so that ‘which’ and ‘one’ would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish ‘y’, replasing it with ‘i’, and Iear 4 might fiks the ‘g/j’ anomali wonse and for all.
Jeneralli, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear, with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing the vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Ier 15 or sou, it wud fainali be posible tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez ‘c’, ‘y’ and ‘x’ — bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez — tu riplais ‘ch’, ‘sh’ and ‘th’ rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers of orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld. Haweve, sins xe Wely, xe Airiy, and xe Skots du not spik Ingliy, xei wud hev to hev a speling siutd tu xer oun lengwij. Xei kud, haweve, orlweiz lern Ingliy az a sekond lengwij at skuul!
Iorz feixfuli,
-M. J. Shields (aka M. J. Yilz)
What English would look like if it were standardized! Can you decode it? (See a translation here.)
Source: lettersofnote.com
The Lorax's Literary Mixtape!
The Lorax! What do you think?
(Big Yellow Taxi was the gimmie here! ^LB)
(Nope, that was Idioteque! ^KE!)
What?? A signed copy of @neilhimself’s ‘Death: The High Cost of Living.’ Signed by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean!
You will not apply my precept,” he said, shaking his head. “How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? We know that he did not come through the door, the window, or the chimney. We also know that he could not have been concealed in the room, as there is no concealment possible. When, then, did he come?
The Sign of the Four
Happy Birthday to the improbable Sir Arthur Conan Doyle!
The Difference Between Hard-Hitting Journalistic Exposés and Humor is...?
NPR was recently burned by Mike Daisy’s largely fabricated piece on working conditions at Chinese Apple factories, and they are now as twice-shy as it seems possible to be. NPR is investigating all of David Sedaris’ stories to see whether they’re entirely factually correct- and shock of shocks, many of them have been exaggerated.
Does this mean his work should be labeled as fiction? Should NPR label each story they broadcast as “not quite true”? What is the difference between a falsified hard-hitting journalistic exposé and humor? ^LB
