LETTER TO THE EDITOR/OTHER PEOPLE KNIT
Dear Sirs:
On 5/27/09, the Wednesday Journal reported that Sciortino and Sons had ruptured a gas pipeline after ignoring state law. You simultaneously illustrated the first tenet of print journalism: any FUBAR article requires double the copy-editing.
Mr. Dwyer wrote that Nicor took 20 minutes "to literally 'squeeze off' the 4-inch diameter PVC gas line with a large portable vice." Alas even those vices with the tightest grip lack any industrial use. "[A] large portable vice," even if we elide past the squeezing, belongs in an entirely different sort of publication.
I look forward to Mr. Dwyer's report on the filling of potholes with the Seven Deadly Sins.
HERR KEPLER'S NOTEBOOK
Time is the bully anchor of the opposing tug-rope team.
The person with a happy home life tracks glitter through the world; the solitary person leaves snowprints.
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"The grasshopper warbler's song comes up out of the earth just as you think the day is quietening down. It has no prelude or warm-up: it starts midperformance, as if switched on by the dark, as it if has been singing like this beneath the earth until it was dark enough to come to the surface. As if, though we hardly hear it, this singing never stops."
A Year on the Wing (Tim Dee)
All writing and cartoons on this site copyright 2008-2010 Julia Martin, unless otherwise credited.
The person with a happy home life tracks glitter through the world; the solitary person leaves snowprints.
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"The grasshopper warbler's song comes up out of the earth just as you think the day is quietening down. It has no prelude or warm-up: it starts midperformance, as if switched on by the dark, as it if has been singing like this beneath the earth until it was dark enough to come to the surface. As if, though we hardly hear it, this singing never stops."
A Year on the Wing (Tim Dee)
All writing and cartoons on this site copyright 2008-2010 Julia Martin, unless otherwise credited.
:D thanks for this.
ReplyDeleteChristopher: I read that you've had a health scare. So hope that you are much much improved!
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