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LEGERDEMAIN (Noun, English) Skilled, dexterous use of the hands when performing magical tricks. Has also taken on a pejorative meaning of deceit or trickery. Note: Cited originally in English during the 16th century. From the French phrase 'léger de main' (light of hand).
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Gates
The word gate is a good old English word, the form being geat in Old English (plural geatu) and whose meaning was ‘an opening or entrance’. A watergate (from the 15th century) is a channel for water; the first element … Continue reading
Word Lust
Today’s Wall Street Journal reports on a database of language usage that is now available to researchers. It is derived from the digital library of the world’s books that Google has been assembling in recent years. Thus far, two billion … Continue reading
Impressions: Generosity (An Enhancement) by Richard Powers
Generosity is the latest novel (2009) from the award-winning American author Richard Powers, and the first work of his that I have read. I wanted to explore his writing because I had read that his novels address the attributes and … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, fiction, language and social media, storytelling
Tagged fiction, generosity, review, technology
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NaNoWriMo -> AnNoWriMo
NaNoWriMo is officially over. Congratulations to all those who completed 50,000 words of a novel in 30 days! I cannot include myself among them. To date I’ve managed about 15,000 words for the first draft of Vamp. Many surprises (not … Continue reading
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