tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post2091170843116290249..comments2024-02-24T03:34:18.060-05:00Comments on Stealing Commas: Moneyball and Breaking Dawnchris the cynichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06872875475212333027noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-2818208284498818172012-02-12T19:43:54.023-05:002012-02-12T19:43:54.023-05:00So I've been thinking about this on and off al...So I've been thinking about this on and off all day. Do I leave it as it is, or do I add some much needed punctuation? I never fixed "<a href="http://stealingcommas.blogspot.com/2011/10/it-as-as-generic-and-universal-prayer.html" rel="nofollow">respecting our deitary concerns</a>" after Will Wildman pointed it out. I think I'm going to do the same thing here and leave it as is.<br /><br />A true story where Twilight was imported from the Cthulhu Mythos is too interesting a mistake to correct.chris the cynichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06872875475212333027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-68828054414341796832012-02-12T04:54:38.967-05:002012-02-12T04:54:38.967-05:00I don't do sports unless I'm participating...I don't do sports unless I'm participating, which these days I don't. But I was rather struck by a fragment of a sentence:<br /><br />"a true story where Twilight was imported from the Cthulhu Mythos"<br /><br />Picture it. A struggling author is having trouble getting her ideas onto the page. She pokes around her church basement looking for inspiration, voraciously reading all sorts of old religious instructional pamphlets and other improving works. Then she comes across that one that makes everything make sense: it's not about the sparkle, it's about the tentacles! She starts writing furiously, and millions take their first steps into a larger world...Firedrakenoreply@blogger.com