Re: Ansible 448 -- November 2024

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David Langford <ansible@cix.co.uk> writes:

ROBERT RUNTE had a soul-searing insight: 'You know you're taking too long
to finish your novel when you started at the same time as _Last Dangerous
Visions_ and it comes out first.' (Facebook, 5 October)

Once I was in the audience of a panel and the moderator asked me if I
was a writer.  When I replied "If I was going to be, it would probably
have happened by now", the entire room applauded for like a minute.  I
took it in the spirit intended but still, fuck, it stung a bit.

--
Steve Coltrin    spcoltri@omcl.org
  "A group known as the League of Human Dignity helped arrange for Deuel
  to be driven to a local livestock scale, where he could be weighed."
  - Associated Press