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la_marquise) wrote2011-01-11 07:26 pm
la_marquise) wrote2011-01-11 07:26 pm
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Words, a headwind and two questions
Rewrites still progressing, with reasonable fluency. I'm toying with cutting a minor character entirely, as they are a hangover from a much earlier version of the plot and actually add nothing. Aude is learning to be proper, and isn't appreciative: "Aude doubted that. Her new maid continued to pull her hair and lace her garments too tight, and never, ever smiled, not even when the most fashionable modiste in all the city came to measure Aude for her new wardrobe. There was a dancing master, too, and a lady of uncertain age and origin who gave instruction in the holding of fans and the placing of flowers."
While Sophy (the car) is at the car spa, I am back on my bicycle. There are not words for how much I dislike cycling. It really doesn't go well with skirts (or my winter coat). It really doesn't go well with the sort of stuff I carry about, either (there is no sensible way to transport boxes of index cards by bike, let me tell you). I know there are specialist garments and carriers. They aren't for me: I don't have that kind of life and I don't really want it. Walking, I love, but for longer distances it can be very time consuming. So today I cycled, and froze (because the coat is too long). A little known fact outside this city is the existence of the Cambridge Headwind. Whichever direction you are going here, you will be cycling into the wind, and the longer the road the more true this will be. Today I battled it both up and down Coldhams Lane, tomorrow I will dare Mill Road. Meanwhile the builders are back (finally, hurray) and the garden is somehow even muddier (as, therefore, are the cats' paws).
It is, I suspect, never wise to post about politics in other countries, but regarding the events in Arizona, I do have to ask: is there such a crime as hate speech, or behaviour liable to incite violence in the US? Because some of the rhetoric that is out there from the right wing would be actionable here, I think.
And secondly, another of my very dim questions. I note that when other people insert links into their ljs, they can do it not just as a website address but as a sentence which overlies the latter. How, please?
Skirt of the day: blue wedgewood over red crinkle.
While Sophy (the car) is at the car spa, I am back on my bicycle. There are not words for how much I dislike cycling. It really doesn't go well with skirts (or my winter coat). It really doesn't go well with the sort of stuff I carry about, either (there is no sensible way to transport boxes of index cards by bike, let me tell you). I know there are specialist garments and carriers. They aren't for me: I don't have that kind of life and I don't really want it. Walking, I love, but for longer distances it can be very time consuming. So today I cycled, and froze (because the coat is too long). A little known fact outside this city is the existence of the Cambridge Headwind. Whichever direction you are going here, you will be cycling into the wind, and the longer the road the more true this will be. Today I battled it both up and down Coldhams Lane, tomorrow I will dare Mill Road. Meanwhile the builders are back (finally, hurray) and the garden is somehow even muddier (as, therefore, are the cats' paws).
It is, I suspect, never wise to post about politics in other countries, but regarding the events in Arizona, I do have to ask: is there such a crime as hate speech, or behaviour liable to incite violence in the US? Because some of the rhetoric that is out there from the right wing would be actionable here, I think.
And secondly, another of my very dim questions. I note that when other people insert links into their ljs, they can do it not just as a website address but as a sentence which overlies the latter. How, please?
Skirt of the day: blue wedgewood over red crinkle.
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slander. there are, in fact, laws against slander. i haven't heard of anyone being prosecuted for slander in a long time. i'm not sure why.
another point: i'm confused as to why conservative politicians and leaders seem to think that violent language is okay--and any sort of censure is treading on their rights to free speach. i've been told by conservatives that they can't be bothered to be "politically correct." you know what? if i showed up in any workplace and talked to my coworkers the way conservative politicians talk to liberal politicians on the legislative floor, i'd be fired. instantly. and not just fired. i'd be forcibly escorted out of the building by security. anyone would. it's very possible that a police report would be filed as well.
there is such thing as professionalism. it exists for a reason. if conservatives can't wrap their heads around the issue any other way, i think they try that one out.
also, let's think about the word "leadership" for a minute. what does it mean? how does it function? direct cause or not, a leader's role is to influence those that follow them, isn't it?
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Yes, me too. It's this aspect that I find so baffling.
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I remember the endless winds of Iowa; the only difference was whether they were hot and dry, cold and dry, cold and wet, or cold and full of snow and ice.
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