Would you like to read a book in which this happens?
It’s one of my all-time favorite books. It’s called Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn. He describes it as an “progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable.”
It is written in the form of letters between the citizens of the fictional island of Nollop, an independent nation off the coast of South Carolina and home of Nevin Nollop, who invented the phrase “the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.” That phrase is written in tiles over a statue of Nollop in their town square, and when one night a storm causes one of the tiles to fall, the council decides that it’s a sign from Nollop that they are no longer allowed to use that letter, in speech or writing, on pain of progressive punishments including public beating and up to banishment.
Then another tile falls. Then another.
The citizens, who are all very attached to their words and writing, mount a campaign to come up with a phrase that uses all 26 letters but is shorter than Nollop’s, thus proving that he was not divine and negating all the edicts.
Because the novel is told in the form of letters the citizens write, and this is the genius part…the author must also stop using the letters as they fall. So the book gradually stops using letters until at one point I think they’re down to just five.
The resolution literally made me get up and dance around the room.
It’s clever, creative, and a not-really-veiled-at-all parable about monotheistic oligarchy. It’s not a long book, you can read it in an afternoon.
GO READ IT RIGHT NOW.
THIS IS THE REBLOG THAT LED ME TO ONE OF THE BEST WRITTEN BOOKS I’VE EVER READ!!
noliarus: If you’re still taking requests, would it be too much to ask for Sherlock confronting John about how he’s made of kittens? ; u ;
and sherlock never solved another case
he was too busy buying milk and making tiny jumpers for cat watsons
comedymakestheworldturn: please draw Sherlock being followed and fussed over by loads of cats! I don’t know why, but I always imagine Sherlock being oddly attractive to cats…
the post where john watson is a collective consciousness of cats = OVER FOREVER
You guys all know the scene where Sherlock shoots Magnussen, right?
Can we take a moment to appreciate how John reacts?
At first, he’s just downright shocked. He can’t believe it. He’s looking at him with so much confusion and worry. Even fear. He, I think, believes Sherlock did it for him. Probably because he was flicking John’s face. Probably because he put John in a fire. “Utter cock”, he was probably thinking.
But then Sherlock turns and says “Give my love to Mary. Tell her she’s safe now.”
And that’s when Johns face drops.
Sherlock, his Sherlock, had just murdered a man to keep his wife safe. To keep John happy. Anything for his John.
He even drops his arms slightly, as if to give up surrendering, as if he wanted to collapse and scream why why why
Because that’s where Sherlock had got it wrong. John wouldn’t have wanted him to do that. Didn’t want him to do that. Not for him. Not for Mary. From what John can tell, Sherlock just threw away his life for a woman John doesn’t even love. Not in the way he loves Sherlock, anyway.
And I think Sherlock knows it too, in his own little way.
I don’t know if any of this makes sense, but I can just see the HUGE difference in reactions from before the quote and after. And it broke me.
Sherlock would do anything for John even if it’s to save someone John <only> thinks could make him happy. Sherlock knows better but he respects John’s decisions. He saves Mary for John because he thinks that by extension he saves John.
Go here and download the 32 bit Python installer. Install it by double-clicking.
Go here and download the tumblr-backup files found in step 2.
Open a new terminal window.
In a finder window, go to your downloads folder, and then unzip the file you downloaded in step 2. You will see a file named tumblr_backup.py.
Drag the tumblr_backup.py file onto the terminal window.
Type the name of the blog you want to save.
Hit enter.
It will download to your “Home” folder.
Tired of waiting for tumblr to do your backup? Do it with python… (you can also do it with a tag – use “-t tagname” before your blogname on the command line).
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