Now that I’m returning to the link soup model (see my previous post about writer links for the whole sordid confession) I might as well go ahead and pump out some links to literary agent stuff I have found interesting recently.
In keeping with the new style — and until you tell me it makes you bat-crazy — these links will use the bullet method to avoid that ugly dotted underline hyperlink marker.
So, my little experiment of setting aside the link soups in favor of just posting whenever I read something interesting? Yeah, that didn’t turn out so well. I would read something, tell myself to remember to blog about it, then forget to blog about it.
In other words, that plan was chock full o’ fail.
But, never let it be said that I don’t respond rationally to contrary data! Back to the status quo ante we go, with this week’s collection of links dedicated to the writers I read online.
lickerous Pleasing or tempting to the palate, delightful. Of a person, having an appetite for delicious food, a keen desire for something pleasant. Also, lecherous, lustful, wanton.
– A Sea of Words : A Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O’Brian’s Seafaring Tales by Dean King with John B. Hattendorf and J. Worth Estes.
A lady with an eye of polished bone
came to Amalgam hoping to atone
for crimes she swore had cost a healthy eye.
We told her things are stable as they lie.
KARROWS * Hard-core fourteenth- to eighteenth-century Irish gamesters, portrayed by Holingshed’s Chronicles as “a brotherhood of karrowes that prefer to play at chartes [cards] all the yere long, and make it their onely occupation.”
– Forgotten English : A Merry Guide to Antiquated Words, Packed with History, Fun Fact, Literary Excerpts, and Charming Drawings by Jeffrey Kacirk
A partisan of strict Amalgam law,
which is defined as more a guide than rule,
was thus found felonous: his legal flaw
was holding law an arm and not a tool.
Courtesy of wordle.net, a word cloud of the short story “The Dun Cat of Mill Bridge.”
lychnobite {LIK-noh-bite. Noun.} The OED defines lychnobite as “one who turns night into day; a ‘fast-liver.'”
From the Greek lychnobios, from lychnos, “lamp,” and bios, “life.”
– Endangered Words : A Collection of Rare Gems for Book Lovers by Simon Hertnon.
A dog sat in Amalgam’s market street
awaiting those who bring the butcher meat.
We know to watch — the dog is in our way —
and still we bark in anger every day.
