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Chesterton to Shaw: To look at you, anyone would think there was a famine in England.

Shaw to Chesterton: And to look at you, anyone would think that you caused it.

It's sbout 4 years old.  I don't think it's backlit; it looks like an LED screen.  Or OLED?

One (1 !) scene up in The Rockpile.  It's 1357 words, and that's about 600 too many ... though I'd settle for 1200.  But let's see what you have to say.

Finally, I think I've got this scene--not even a chapter!  I need to work on some phonetic accent--sorry, but this once it's necvesay.

I've started the first of the two reviews I owe you.  I'll pick it up later today.

Gee, I wish I'd had you for this.  I broke the bezel in one place pulling it off.  I give the assisred superglue a 55% chance of holding it together when I snap it back on.  And you can bet I'll test the thing before I do.

What if you got some Latin text from Virgil or Marcus Aurelius and fed it to Google Translate?  It might give you something useful.  Or, the text of the Carmina Burana is online.  That has Latin parts, some of them quite racy.  (Et ius virginia, resserassem vincula!)

Latin has no articles.  You might omit them when you can.
The copula is often omitted (In vino veritas).
The in/into distiction gets blurred.
There is an 'absolute' construction for circumstance.  (His horse having been fed, he atttended his guests.)
There are past (plu-) and future perfect tenses corresponding to our perfect aspect, but no distinction matching our progressive (continuing) aspect.
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Catchphrases, proverbs, explitives maybe, in the 'real' tongue?

Wow!  Thank you.

Where can I find this?

Found it: http://www.exclassics.com/ingold/ing17.htm

Incidentally, Dorothy Sayers indulged in a Tom Swifty in =The Nine Tailors=:

" 'With the big sugar nippers they nipped off his flippers,' Lord Peter Wimsey quoted flippantly."
And if anyone knows from what his Lordship was quoting, please let me know.  (Oh, IIRC this occurred while examining a dis-handed corpse.)

The screen on my flaptop has died.  It looks like mechanical damage.  Not sure how long it will be out of service.  W/o it it's not even feasible to look for a replacement.

There's a lot I'm not comfoetable with in the last three chapters and I want to think for a while before I put it in words.  Some of it is continuity.  Some of it is letting Alda dominate the story for several chapters.  Some of it is falling outside the foreshadow.

So I'm going to mull it for a day or two.  You'll see me doing other things.  Don't worry; I haven't forgotten you.