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28 March 2009 ~ 1 Comment

C Notes

So this is my 100th post, folks. Huzzah! Writing duckanddrakes has been a rewarding pastime over the last year.  During the next few weeks, I’ll be giving some thought to this blog and its future. For the time being, here’s an index to a few posts that exhibit what I’ve been trying to do here. [...]

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28 March 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Through The Cracks

From argle-bargle to snollygoster: are these the 100 funniest words in English? On this day in 1970, James Dickey published Deliverance.  His son Christopher recalls: “it seemed to me then and for a long time afterward that forces of self-indulgence and self-destruction, which were always there in my father but held in check, were now [...]

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