Shakespeare by algorithm.

Nice try, but a-historical:  "chignon" was first recorded in English in 1783.  (A very few instances turn up earlier on EEBO in French-English dictionaries, but meaning simply the nape of the neck, not a coil of hair worn at it.)

Still an interesting article on computational stylistics.

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My Cloudish conversation with Sofia Samatar, on the 30th anniversary of Moonwise, is now live at Uncanny Magazine, with illustrations by the author.  We dug deep.  I made new discoveries about my process and mythos.    I would love to hear from you, my readers and my friends.

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Mirabile dictu. BBC Radio Dramatizations of Lud-in-the-Mist and Lolly Willowes!

With thanks to Michael Swanwick for sending these on.

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O my! That overnight in the Berkshires was absolutely wonderful! Taking the Fitchburg line was a brilliant idea (thanks,
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The poor cat i' the adage is hesitating at another brink, darting out a paw.

A very old and dear friend has asked me to spend a day or two at her 300-year-old house in the Berkshires, in leaf season, for conversation and woods walking.

But I'd have to take two buses, changing in Springfield, and the T to the bus.  Dare I risk it?

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So Arisia goes live in January.  I've started to sign up, and I keep halting in my panel choices, thinking, what the hell am I doing?  If I don't feel comfortable going to a theatre for two hours for Macbeth, why am I even considering going to a con?  Even if the con has an admirably strict vaccination and mask policy, it's still in a public space ( Read more... )