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Disguised anti-vehicle mines used in WWII

Wet rust. Clean, unmixed human blood has a pretty clear, uncomplicated smell akin to that of wet-sanding rusted steel or iron. If you have a research budget, just get some of the click lancets still available for diabetic blood sugar testing. Many kinds do not need a separate device — just...

A writing project, you mean? I can relate.

I could look at and comment 2-4,000 words from that perspective and their surface style. If you want to try that, PM me. I don't edit only literary work, just mostly. Someone could always steal a good thought or a good line — a generally ethical guy in one group I occasionally attend reused a...

Is it only in English, or have you self-translated it?

There's hope for civilisation yet.

Someone close to the tubby guy in the new photos should recognize him, even with only the sliver of eyes visible.

Some theorize the exact opposite, that our iteration of civilization will be the first to leave no cultural artifacts because their media are ephemeral.

Just read Flesh today, by David Szalay. Written plainly, dispassionately. Some will ask what was the point, but it paints a life. There's been so much talk about the sex in it, but neither the amount nor the sex itself nor the writing about it seems in any way remarkable — which is just fine. I...

Mine is not chaotic or very non-linear, it simple isn't based on acting most parts out. The only non-linearity is that the first-person narrator is writing forty years later and sometimes interjects present-tense recollections or modern-time perspectives or comparisons into past-tense...

If you drink anything with caffeine, theophylline, or theobromine, you should cut your consumption in half the very day you quit smoking. Nicotine is an inducer of CYP1A2, which neutralizes xanthines like the above-mentioned in the liver. Quitting nicotine has an effect equivalent to doubling...

I do much less in-the-moment scene-writing now, much more free[style] narrative — a blend of narrative summary with snippets of inner monologue and direct or indirect dialogue. The boundaries are not always clear-cut.

(Posted in, my barber's, window today.)

Tim's lung collapsed. His good one.

(But I am not the linked author, nor mentioned in the article.)