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That's from the preface of a book* I'm reading, where the author is saying that the publisher was awesome about the book being late ("bore with exceeding kindness delays in producing the manuscript"), and then rattles off a number of reasons why, and then ended the sentence with that. I think that's a terribly well-mannered way of saying, "dude, my shit was HOSED." And is in the running for my new LJ title.
*Pleasures & Pastimes in Medieval England by Compton Reeves, Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1995.
*Pleasures & Pastimes in Medieval England by Compton Reeves, Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1995.
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Date: 2008-12-15 10:54 pm (UTC)I'd crib it, but it'd take too long to type out.
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Date: 2008-12-15 11:03 pm (UTC)I sort of get the feeling he spent a little more time in the middle ages than was wise.
I wonder why you'd be spending time there too.
*blink*
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