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[3pipeproblem]

You know, sometimes I understand people posting RP guidelines. They can be helpful to newbies, or in establishing ground rules, but most of the time I think time would be better spent explaining the difference between "its" and "it's" and making note of the correct way to spell "existence." I'm just sayin'

Anyway, AlanAlanAlan litspam:

"I wanted Catherine, but I wanted to take her with a different self, a self that wasn't available. The thing I wanted wasn't lost in the past at all, and it never had been. It was lost in the future. A self I should have been, but wasn't. A thread I'd let go of in myself, thinking I could live without it, not seeing what it meant."

Gun, With Occasional Music

Exactly.

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[catch22girl]

It's and Its...or breath and breathe. Nothing takes me out of a story quite like "she tried to take a deep breathe" no honey, no.

Gun, With Occasional Music - what an awesome book (if you're talking about the book). Yay completely messed up future mystery stories.

[3pipeproblem.livejournal.com]

Oh my, yes. And back when I used to read X-Files fic, if someone misspelled "Krycek" I had this compulsive need to go through the document and correct the spelling. It's so easy to do right and it drives me insane!

The books in my library don't have dust jackets, so I grabbed it kind of randomly because I wanted to read something by Lethem, and I thought it was going to be a straight mystery. Needless to say, I spent the first few chapters going "...did he just say rabbit? Did he mean that literally?"

[catch22girl]

The Krycek mispellings, oh I wanted to jump into the screen and slap them. Learning how to spell character names - it's really not a bad thing!

Very scary future that Lethem wrote there - but I <3 hardboiled detective fiction.