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Asimov and Tolkien were very strong and skilled writers.  Not everyone can follow their paths.

Tee Ess ELIOT!

In the real world, the cat trips you.

Hey!  Who let the coneheads in?  (From France.)

Don't you mean 'roll call'?

In many of these 'starts' the reader is presented with the character and jeopardy first, sometimes in a setting that will be absurd if not quickly explained.  In the extreme cases, I find it unsettling and unsatisfying, almost like the book cover that says, "Buy this book or I will shoot this dog."

So I think I agree with this thesis in principle.  In practice, our language is expressed in a linear sequence of words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, etc., and it is necessary to put one thing before the other.

Interesting.  When I read off digits, I round the tones on the first and last in the sequence, but otherwise hold them as flat as I can.  And yes, that is otherwise unnatural in Engish, because we accent words by voiced stress rather than by length (which I am given to understand is the way that Russian places accents).

A fellow I know wrote an early voice-response system.  (NOT for cold-calling!)  He recorded each digit four times: Beginning of sequence, middle of sequence, end of sequence, and standalone.

Nice summary.

Just noticed the praise.  That's more the reviewer I am trying to be than the one I am!

For the fans, the 'completed' battery powered supply:

Front

Back

I'm looking for a way to put a voltmeter and ammeter on this.  Because there's not a lot of spare power, a fancy LED display or LED-lit display is a bad choice, so mechanical meters are the way to go.  But they're big, and pose a mounting challenge.  Also the ammeter would (will?) have to be cut into the circuit above both the output and current bootstrap transistors.  Quite doable, but I have another project for the moment.  I spent a couple of hours looking for the high-speed diodes I thought I'd used on the previous breadboards, but it turns out that I used the same schottkys that I'd used in other places.  Grumble.
I also have to continue putting parts in their proper boxes.

Give that bat shit some lithium.

(I knew that would be the next entry.)