Narrative of a maritime disaster from 1840, bound in timbers from the wreck -- feels like this should be in a museum!
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Complaint about 'stupid' scholarly titles that don't describe a work's contents, from a 1966 MLR review of the latest vol. of the Annual Bibliography of Eng Lang & Lit.
Can't say I disagree, and it hasn't gone away š
So Adobe has finally found a way to poison InDesign, one of their best bits of software, with 'AI' shite. It's a typesetting program, not a writing program. Anyone doing writing in InDesign is nuts. What a waste of everybody's time (and a waste of our absurdly inflated subscription money)
Authors, if you're not sure how to do something in your MS, *please* just ask your editor/production editor. So many of the problems (and hence delays) at the editing stage of academic books come from authors charging ahead with a workaround for something they don't know how to do (in Word).
āFear is my name, and I am Deathās messenger and the reminder of Death; and I have come before him to warn you of his coming.ā
Killer description of Hell in this!
Visitor's guide to Brighton from 1800: 'one of the most desirable summer and winter residences in the kingdom'
And best mutton in the universe, apparently.
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