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In the New Yorker...
Front-Ranger:
Yikes! I hyperventilate about taking 3 ibuprofen a week...!
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on August 25, 2025, 07:36:57 pm ---Yikes! I hyperventilate about taking 3 ibuprofen a week...!
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Then you'll positively clutch your pearls and swoon dead away to know that my dermatologist has added an immunosupressant to my regimen.
Jeff Wrangler:
Meanwhile, I enjoyed the Aug. 25 article about unexpected and sometime unpleasant surprises from DNA tests.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on August 25, 2025, 08:22:07 pm ---Meanwhile, I enjoyed the Aug. 25 article about unexpected and sometime unpleasant surprises from DNA tests.
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Oh, I'll have to look for this. I know two people who got surprises: a coworker who discovered a brother he didn't know he had and a friend whose family found out, after their dad's death, that he'd had a son out of wedlock before marrying their mom. Both son and his mother were deceased by the time the family saw the report.
Front-Ranger:
That was a good article. I did my genealogy and got only minor surprises.
I reread the article on Elmore Leonard in the July 7 & 14 issue. Now I'd like to read his biography and maybe one or two of his books. Not really inspired to see any of his movies, though. Here are a few of the better passages.
"'They're not trying to be funny, they don't know they're funny,' Leonard said of his characters. 'They just are.'"
"Leonard...does them the honor of flavoring his registration of their chatter with that perfect hint of them. The technical term for this...is style indirect libre....It has a noble track record, with Jane Austen and Flaubert as front-runners...."
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