Comments on: Light Posting http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2007/05/10/light-posting/ Dedicated to the mathematical arts. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:55:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Walt http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2007/05/10/light-posting/#comment-36021 Walt Thu, 17 May 2007 04:07:02 +0000 http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2007/05/10/light-posting/#comment-36021 That's awesome. It was rumored about ten years ago that Saddam Hussein had written a novel under a pseudonym, but I don't know the details. That’s awesome. It was rumored about ten years ago that Saddam Hussein had written a novel under a pseudonym, but I don’t know the details.

]]> By: Chris Hillman http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2007/05/10/light-posting/#comment-35980 Chris Hillman Wed, 16 May 2007 23:47:12 +0000 http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2007/05/10/light-posting/#comment-35980 Just came across a website (http://oddbooks.co.uk/oddbooks/) which quickly reduced me to tears of laughter. Guess who wrote this? [QUOTE] Ah, you do not listen to me, shameless courtesan, harlot. Well, I shall come to get you in this same castle. I shall let the common brutes of the market-place satiate their idle lusts on your sinful body. You shall be the mockery of the unreasoning mob. Your corpse will not have the rites of Christian burial. You will be cast into the field of the Badia with the witches. And when the hour of your agony comes, when, trampled on, transfixed and rent by the blows of the mob, you shall implore aid and succour with the eyes which now so disdainfully regard me, I shall be the evil demon of that supreme hour, I shall come to torture you with memories of me, to gloat in my triumph. [/UNQUOTE] (Hint: from an early twentieth century bodice ripper, published in Italian in 1909 by somoene, not remembered as a novelist, whose own corpse was in the fullness of time, rent by the blows of a mob.) ANSWER: http://oddbooks.co.uk/oddbooks/musso.html Compare the utterly bland mention of this book in the author's wikibio. Just came across a website (http://oddbooks.co.uk/oddbooks/) which quickly reduced me to tears of laughter.

Guess who wrote this?

[QUOTE]
Ah, you do not listen to me, shameless courtesan, harlot. Well, I shall come to get you in this same castle. I shall let the common brutes of the market-place satiate their idle lusts on your sinful body. You shall be the mockery of the unreasoning mob. Your corpse will not have the rites of Christian burial. You will be cast into the field of the Badia with the witches. And when the hour of your agony comes, when, trampled on, transfixed and rent by the blows of the mob, you shall implore aid and succour with the eyes which now so disdainfully regard me, I shall be the evil demon of that supreme hour, I shall come to torture you with memories of me, to gloat in my triumph.
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(Hint: from an early twentieth century bodice ripper, published in Italian in 1909 by somoene, not remembered as a novelist, whose own corpse was in the fullness of time, rent by the blows of a mob.)

ANSWER: http://oddbooks.co.uk/oddbooks/musso.html

Compare the utterly bland mention of this book in the author’s wikibio.

]]> By: dl http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2007/05/10/light-posting/#comment-34940 dl Sat, 12 May 2007 17:07:10 +0000 http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2007/05/10/light-posting/#comment-34940 since when unpacking is not math related? ;) since when unpacking is not math related? ;)

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