Archive for the 'Experiments' Category

Made To Hors d’œuvre

March 29, 2008

“If Yan can cook”, he used to say, ’so can you.”
I took that seriously. I even tried the no-look coriander chopping trick that he used to perform to much applause. All I got was a bloody (painful) pinkie and a swift bottom-paddling. It was a pity meat was never allowed at home, for I [...]

An Experiment Gone Horribly Wrong

September 23, 2007

Do not put statements in the negative form.
And don’t start sentences with a conjunction.
If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a
great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing.
Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
Unqualified superlatives are the worst of [...]