I remember reading an early-19th century account of why passenger trains would be impossible-- the human body was never meant to travel as fast as 30 or 40 miles an hour and the forces involved in going around a curve would obviously crush the vital organs. The Mars trilogy was awesome, but some of Robinson's concerns strike me as similarly hypothetical.
At our house, we're experiencing the 20-month sleep regression, which I believe comes between the 19-month sleep-tastrophe and the 21-month wakey-wakies.
Back when we understood English was meant for alliteratin'! (With just a little rhyme to spice up the bob and wheel.
"About Goblins" is more on-point than my freshman comp student who wrote a 6-page paper which kept referring to Chriftina Roffetti's imagery... because the packet I'd photocopied included a reproduction of the title page from the original, what with its Gothic script and all.
The scene in "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell," in which Goya sketches Strange surrounded by the corpses he's reanimated but can't return to the dead seems mild compared to some of these. Anyone know if the incident in the novel was inspired by an actual Goya sketch?
Why wasn't I more upset by this the first time I read the series?
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