Sneaky.

[mrissa]

It is physically very difficult to eye one's own brain suspiciously. I think judiciously placed mirrors are in order.

I don't really see an alternate course of action than to eye my brain suspiciously, however, when there is already swashing and buckling in this book and then I am writing along and find myself blithely describing one of the foreign ambassadors as a "grey-blonde woman of middle years, who could have been Yaritte's double if they dressed carefully." Yaritte is the main character.

All right, brain! What are you up to in there?

Comments

[wshaffer.livejournal.com]

Carry on, Mris's brain! I like the way you think!

[roane.livejournal.com]

I laughed aloud in recognition at this. I have often eyed my brain suspiciously.

[columbina.livejournal.com]

Ibid.

[columbina.livejournal.com]

Or did I mean op. cit.? I always get those two mixed up.

[mamapduck.livejournal.com]

It gets worse when you realize your suspicions were correct and your brain deserves nothing so much as a swift kick.

[fredcritter.livejournal.com]

All right, brain! What are you up to in there?

We're always the last to know…

[fredcritter.livejournal.com]

Instead of repeating, in shortened form, the author's name or the title, the writer may use ibid., an abbreviation of Latin ibidem, meaning "in the same place." When used by itself, without a page reference, it means "in the last publication cited, on the same page." When used with a page reference, it means "in the last publication cited, on the page indicated." Like other Latin abbreviations used in footnoted, ibid. is no longer commonly italicized. It can refer only to the last source cited:

 . . .

A work other than the last one mentioned may be identified by the author's name followed by op. cit., short for opere citato, meaning "in the work already cited. This abbreviation is ambiguous and inappropriate if the writer has already cited more than one work by the same author.

—Hans P. Guth, Concise English Handbook, Second Edition, Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc., Belmont, California, 1965, p.329.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Well, if I'm the last to know, short-circuit the whole process and tell me when the information gets to you!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Err, thanks! But why the carrot?