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27 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I'm going to be in conversation re this splendid new novel next week (it is next week, right?), and maybe you'll be there too?

eventbrite.com/e/pp-live-eley…
*mutters*

dude sure talks a lot

eventbrite.com/e/paraic-odonn…
You know how some novels play out in two timelines and you find yourself skipping over one of the timelines?

This isn't one of those.

And I guarantee that you wordery people are going to eat this one up with a spoon.
This one's just bonkers in all the best ways, and that's all I'll say about that, for the moment.

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Goodbye to Dawn Wells, who was charming. Image
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PS mea culpa I inadvertently tweeted out a word yesterday that I swear to God I played and that the 🐝 rejected, so I deleted the whole thread.
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28 Dec
Well, happy birthday to her! actress Maggie Smith
And as one does like to note from time to time, her performance in The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne is one of the greatest ever committed to film.

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One of @yashar's gorilla tweets reminded me to try to find the whereabouts of a gorilla I met (and held!) when she was a baby at the Lincoln Park Zoo.

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Why Do Some People Type Entire Tweets in Title Case? Isn’t It Twice as Laborious? Plus, It Thwarts Spellcheck.
Title Case Is Not the Same Thing as ALL CAPS: A Monograph
you know who typed in all lowercase? shirley jackson
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21 Dec
I had somehow never noticed before that Shirley Jackson uses semicolons in dialogue; she gets away with it.
[I still don't recommend their use in dialogue.]
When I was (carefully) copyediting the volume of SJ's work we published as Let Me Tell You, I recall encountering two extremely lengthy multiclause sentences held together by a single semicolon, and to be honest my response was:

Madam, this is why we have periods.
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