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The Seven That’s
What’s the most times you can repeat the same word consecutively in a sentence and still retain meaning? Here’s a sentence with 7 words in a row. It remains true for all that that that that that that that refers to is not the same that that that that refers to. Anyone for any more? Posted by Josef Essberger February 2008 Can anyone explain this to me? Words are my specialty but this is a hard one! -Glenn Credit is to. . . 7 That’s in a Row...
read moreCollectible Books in my Sci-Fi Collection
For some years now I have been collecting popular n sometimes quite rare editions of popular science fiction books, both paperback n hardback. Writers include Edgar Rice Burroughs, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, n many more. My purpose is not to flip them by offering them for sale, but to simply make others aware of what is in my library. In theory, I suppose, my entire library could be purchased, but currently I am more interested in buying than selling. First item: 1970 Double Edition of A Princess of Mars, illus. by Frank Frazetta....
read moreLaws of Human Society-Edited
Conclusions I have come to after many years of contemplation: Fundamental Principle #1: Law of Infinite Hypergamy. The higher the percentage of women in power, the more porous a nation’s borders will be, in order to expand women’s potential mating pool of high status males to an infinite asymptote. Corollary to Law of Infinite Hypergamy: vanishing borders are the clearest sign that one lives in a wholly dominant matriarchy. Fundamental Principle #2: Law of Inverse Value. The more popular something is, the less it is worth. The...
read moreCurious Things
45 is a Colt, and a short playing plastic record, and a Malt Liquor. And that’s the last time I hope to type ‘and’ when ‘n’ is quicker n easier. If dolts don’t get it, that’s their problem. I’m tired of dumbing down everything for people who can’t read above a 4th grade level. If my books were to suddenly become popular, I would conclude that I had done something terribly wrong because only low-quality books ever become popular while t best books, n certainly t most intelligently written,...
read morePronouns For Thee and Me
I can’t help but make public my own pronouns. Keeping in mind that others must now address me by these legally enforceable identity-confirming words, I specify the following pronouns: “Hey You!”; “What the hell?”; “Your aunt said what?”; and “Oh, really?” I have more pronouns but they don’t compare to Jihad Bubba’s carefully selected pronouns. You’ll have to read the book to learn what his pronouns are and the legal trouble he got into because of them. If I mention them...
read moreThe Traditional Publishing Scam
In former times–meaning antedeluvian–I worked for a small press. I reviewed unsolicited manuscripts, called the slush pile, to locate undiscovered gems for publication and I also did some editing. Not once did the small press publish anything that came over the transom. If they wanted to publish something like a vampire novel, for instance, instead of putting something from the slush pile under contract, they would assign the task of writing the desired mss to one of the staff editors and totally ignore the slush pile. The editor,...
read moreAI comments
The developments of AI are disturbing. How can a democratic process work if everything one sees and hears is fake propaganda? ChatGPT has already been tagged as having a political slant that is readily identifiable and now Google Gemini portrays whites as blacks, but never blacks as whites. For those who think this kind of falsification is good, I suppose it presents no problem. I wonder how law schools will handle this? In law school there are right answers and wrong answers which lends itself to AI. Law students must write many papers...
read moreLatest books from Equus
It’e been a while since I myself wrote anything of consequence. My latest effusions (that sounds better than emissions) are Quantum Marlowe and Jihad Bubba. I actually wrote another novel before I wrote those, titled The Glow. This is a sci-fi horror novel about a young man who must keep the same coins in each pocket otherwise he will burst into flames. He’s okay with that, but there is another angle to his problem–his Glow is contagious. If he touches anyone, or if they are stupid enough to ignore his warnings and touch...
read moreConfessions & latest news
Despite careful proofreading, the sample copies of ‘Confessions’ revealed several typos. I really, really hate typos. I corrected all of them n reposted the file on Amazon. ‘Confessions’ should be typo-free now but the book may not be available for shipping until Tuesday, Sep 5. My sci-fi novel The Glow has been carefully proofread n submitted to a major sci-fi publisher. It will be a few weeks before I get an answer. It might be helpful if I had an agent to help open some doors, but I have an issue with NYC publishers...
read more‘Confessions’ spy book published – comments
After months in preparation, my latest book, Confessions of a CIA Spy in the Soviet Union, is finally out and available from Amazon. For many years I kept to one side the journal that the CIA requested me to keep, thinking that with the Soviet Union gone, no one would be interested in what it was like to live, or more accurately try to survive, daily life in that Communist country. With the current war in Ukraine and people of all factions and convictions splitting on whom to support and why, or having no interest in the matter under the...
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