to looking like this:

'It's in the lumber-room, sir — tied up with the old humbrella and the niblick you don't like.'

seems odd that this first counter-reading ("bulldog drummond is homicidal, xenophobic and sexist") has taken the place of the previously standard reading ("bulldog is a bloody british hero") when actually it lies at right angles to both. AT ANY RATE it's less annoying to ahem modern refined sensibilities than the bloody inspector morse novel i read the other week. ("Morse was appalled. How he detested sex crime!")

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also, this:

'You're so helpful, Algy. A perfect rock of strength. Do you want a job?'

'What sort of a job?' demanded the other suspiciously.

'Oh not work, dear old boy. Damn it, man—you know me better than that, surely!'

^^ shoot it.

anyway, here is a list of problems i am finding with my writing, for mainly my own personal use, off a much longer comment i wrote on someone else's lj:

— i find it hard to write straight description, or action, as opposed to writing a riff on an idea;
— whenever two characters converse, they're in difficulty of leaving behind whatever idiom they ought to be in and switching into that of whichever DVD i last watched;
—there's certain finesses of plot that i fail to work out properly because i'm too caught up on the overall structure (i.e., i know when the assassination attempt happens, but i forget to work out when the telephone conversation letting people know that it happened happens)

next time i update, i will instead tell you all the things i hate about my body.

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also — this suit, y/n?

so, guess where i've been working lately.