Memo to Self

1. Get dressed.
2. Go to Werk.

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Book meme

Meme from mindygoth

Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page 23.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the sentence in your journal...
...along with these instructions.

I am at Werk, and there are no real books nearby. None!

So it's an e-book:

"'Diana could, by waving her fan,' said Sophie: her face was not well-suited for crossness, but now it expressed a variety of cross emotions -- indignation for Stephen, displeasure at this renewed complication, and something of the disapproval or even jealousy of a woman with a very modest sexual impulse for one in whom it was quite the reverse -- the whole tempered by a willingness to think or speak unkindly."

Delicious characterisation. *bows before the master*

Bad Mr Stephenson

From the Guardian online. (It took me some time to find this, as apparently 'sci fi' authors come under IT, not Books.)

Online: Do you have any idea of what your next novel will be about? Have you started it? Will it be connected to The Baroque Cycle in the same way that there are links between those novels and Cryptonomicon?

NS: No, no, and no. I have not settled on what my next project will be. Some day I might write more in the vein of Baroque Cycle/Cryptonomicon, but at the moment I need to get away from these characters and these themes and---to paraphrase Monty Python---do something completely different for some years.

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( Stephenson on the similarities between writing and programming )

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( Stephenson on pleasing one's readers )

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( Stephenson on whether the Baroque Cycle is SF )

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