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I dunno. I got three degrees from UNC, and I think I f-bombed all of my interviewers for dental school and residency.

We were in Wilmington for the last one and got DRENCHED

We had a similar thought.

I think that's a totally fair critique, but I think sometimes the message is simply the prose itself. It's less pure storytelling, and more of a work of art in itself. It's definitely not for everyone, and it hits and misses. I know some people who think it's so overdone as to be a form of...

YES. I still bring up "small trembling satellites" at every opportunity.

Another fav is from The Crossing, describing the workshop of an old wolf trapper, where CM lays into his insane prose mastery:

My advice is to go Passenger --> Stella Maris --> Passenger a second time. The opening section of Passenger where she's hanging frozen is one of the most definitive gut-punches I've read, particularly after SM.

I re-read BM about once a year. The paragraph where the Glanton gang is going up a mountain while a train of miners is coming down with their donkeys, and the the Gang just carelessly knocks them off the mountain is among my favorite paragraphs of prose in all the english language. I also love...

Is the CIC going to be required to meet the physical requirements too?

The answer for all marinades is "What do you want it to taste like?" If I'm making something from scratch, I'll do .25c olive oil, tablespoon of red wine vinegar, three tablespoons of water, and as much garlic as I feel like smashing. Then I'll throw a smidge of soy and wisthsoshcohchshire for...

Marinate it. Grill it. Cut thinly perpendicular to the grain.

Agreed. Used to sit on top of Old East at night.

Many of us found out about it on the ZZL. If I remember right, someone was working in Manhattan and saw the first plane hit.

Right - that's been the case as long as the American system has been more or less predictable. All those base understanding about decision makers, general monetary policy, etc. have since been thrown out the window, and have been broken in such a robust way to potentially affect how the entire...