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Quick note inbetween doing the mail run and going to lunch:

Twice today I have helped one of the buyers here spell "difficult" words: cliché and touché. I briefly mentioned the acute accent on the e but settled for an apostrophe used afterwards. As I was walking away, I briefly thought, "This - with a degree in Letters..." and then stopped myself because the pun was just too nice. Of course I'm helping people spell - what else would I do with a degree in Letters? ;)

Those who are familiar with Atlas Shrugged (I only know for certain that one of you has read it, though) know that the climax of the book - or at least a high point - is the radio speech given by one of the main characters. This speech spans 56 pages in my copy of the book. 56 pages in oh, 8 point font? Maybe smaller? Anyway, I got to the start of the speech last night on the way home and stopped reading, because I feel it needs to be read in one big lump. I don't know if I'm going to do that, though. I read fast, but there's no way I'm going to finish it over lunch... ;)
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