* Well, AP English Literature. however, a standardized test is a standardized test, I suppose.
* I never had any idea why on earth you thought "graceful degradation" was special until just now, when I realized that, of course, it's all to do with echoes and parallels. Well, and paradox, I suppose. still. I am impressed with it, finally.
* Personally, I fucking love canon!Suzie Costello, and may even prefer her to your stable alternative. But obviously I didn't know this nearly as well as you did, and so perhaps the impression wasn't strong enough to override the glorious wreck of a person that canon gave us. It would take a lot to compete with that kind of violence (I don't just mean the serial killing) in any case, and I do not know if there was enough of your Suzie for that . . . that kind of character needs volume/space/time to win out in such a situation.
* I like seeing the inside of your head because we make very different decisions and pursue different things in a story. Some of the things that you seem to assume people know, also, such as your little quip about Anglo-Saxon penchants, I have quite frankly never encountered in my life, and it amazes me that, all the while claiming ignorance, you have these exclusive bits of literary knowledge preserved in your brain (unless everyone else knows, and I am just exceptionally ignorant?). I actually brought that up because I was going to say, as an example, that I would probably not consciously alliterate, and certainly not to that extent, and yet I hardly notice it -- and indeed find it compelling -- in your writing. But, as has been expressed, art is (often) what you can get away with. Chapeau!
* I had never (perhaps this follows) heard the rhyme to which you allude, except in An Experiment in Love, where it had puzzled me immensely . . .
* It remains a very good fic. You, first and foremost, tell a good story.
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* I never had any idea why on earth you thought "graceful degradation" was special until just now, when I realized that, of course, it's all to do with echoes and parallels. Well, and paradox, I suppose. still. I am impressed with it, finally.
* Personally, I fucking love canon!Suzie Costello, and may even prefer her to your stable alternative. But obviously I didn't know this nearly as well as you did, and so perhaps the impression wasn't strong enough to override the glorious wreck of a person that canon gave us. It would take a lot to compete with that kind of violence (I don't just mean the serial killing) in any case, and I do not know if there was enough of your Suzie for that . . . that kind of character needs volume/space/time to win out in such a situation.
* I like seeing the inside of your head because we make very different decisions and pursue different things in a story. Some of the things that you seem to assume people know, also, such as your little quip about Anglo-Saxon penchants, I have quite frankly never encountered in my life, and it amazes me that, all the while claiming ignorance, you have these exclusive bits of literary knowledge preserved in your brain (unless everyone else knows, and I am just exceptionally ignorant?). I actually brought that up because I was going to say, as an example, that I would probably not consciously alliterate, and certainly not to that extent, and yet I hardly notice it -- and indeed find it compelling -- in your writing. But, as has been expressed, art is (often) what you can get away with. Chapeau!
* I had never (perhaps this follows) heard the rhyme to which you allude, except in An Experiment in Love, where it had puzzled me immensely . . .
* It remains a very good fic. You, first and foremost, tell a good story.
* I am not sure what else I have to say.