There is some other stuff that I really ought to be doing at this point, so I figured "Why not fire up the Shortale blog?" I had a fine holiday season, with most of the family gathering in. I'm trying to formulate, in the smithy of my soul, the unformed story of the white elephant swap and the subsequent intrigue of the white (and red) ceramic pig Rodrigo. I am going to have to chart that one out.
Speaking of tales of intrigue, as much as I love military hardware stuff, Tom Clancy is just too bad an author to suffer through. I believe I invented the summarization "It was a red and stormy night ... " though my niece says she thinks she heard Christopher Buckley use it also. Fine. I'm not copyrighting anything. Fair play to him.
A good contrast example is LeCarre. You never know whom to trust and all the conversations are indirect in one of the Smiley books. It's almost as if Clancy is writing "for dummies" versions of a spy novel.
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