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Sarah Knudsen
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Carbon-based fan of em dashes & the serial comma. Fond of chemistry, philosophy; experience playing and working with data, scholarly writing/editing, fiber/bead arts. Mostly reading, parenting, messing with data, and trying to get enough sleep (she/her)
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My favorite part of the apple orchard
A table, outdoors, with a grouping of items: 6 apples labeled with their varieties, an apple-sized rock (labeled "ROCK") and a small pumpkin (labeled "NOT AN APPLE")
October 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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If I didn't already like the author's sense of humor this would be a great hint I was going to (From Robert K. Merton's "On the Shoulders of Giants")
AN EXPLANATORY NOTE by the German translator of this book drawn from an account requested of its author: "'As you supposed, the dedication is indeed to my three children, listed in order of birth, and then, as you could not easily surmise, to their fifteen cats (not, as you understandably inferred, to fifteen grandchildren). The allusion would be understood at once by close friends. Still, others can find a clue in the antonymic "Effable Three ... and Their Ineffable Fifteen." For those paired adjectives of course echo T.S. Eliot's "The Naming of Cats" in his unforgettable Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1967, twenty-first printing), which was read successively and often by each of The Effable Three. A further clue is provided by my confession, in the note on page 71, that in my middle years I became "a confirmed ailurophile."
August 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM