just a few things

No real content.

There's this:
 

To which I must say hah! (only the workshop readers of a recent story of mine will understand my glee--not that it fixes the problem, but still, glee)
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Here's an aptly Octoberian quote from Mary Shelley, who is rather Octoberly apt:

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of the void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.
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Blessed be Friday, for it is a day lighter in body than the four preceeding it, and it comes to us with kindly intent and the will to make of the work week an end.