There exists in every age, in every society, a small, still choir of reason emanating from a few scattered thinkers ignored by the mainstream. Their collective voices, when duly discovered a century or so too late, reveal what was wrong with that society and age, and how it could have been corrected if only people had listened and acted accordingly. Richard Mitchell's is such a voice. It could help make a better life for you or, if it is too late for that, at least for your children. Ignore it at your and their peril. John Simon

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‘What’s the best way to sign off an email? I never know, and secretly wonder if I get it horribly wrong' Numerous contributors make this discussion better than ordinary.

‘What’s the best way to sign off an email? I never know, and secretly wonder if I get it horribly wrong'
Numerous contributors make this discussion better than ordinary.

Fanfic as worldplay/paracosm creation, a la the Brontes. Short, but interesting and well observed for a mainstream piece (well, Wired is SORTA mainstream). Though I do wish people would stop referencing ff.net as though it was the end-all of fanfic writing culture.

1 Age-otori (Japanese): To look worse after a haircut

2 Arigata-meiwaku (Japanese): An act someone does for you that you didn’t want to have them do and tried to avoid having them do, but they went ahead anyway, determined to do you a favor, and then things went wrong and caused you a lot of trouble, yet in the end social conventions required you to express gratitude

It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.