372 Pages We ll Never Get Back
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🕑 Added 2022-01-03 16:14:25 +0000 UTCHappy new year, Jackals! Hope you enter 2022 relaxed, merry, and with a hankering for hot centaurs. I blissfully did not wallow in terrible movies or books for the final week of the year, but even with that intentional break, I found myself encountering... yep, long fingers, in a book about baseball pitching. At least it kind of makes sense there.
New episode coming Friday!
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Gordon Vanderwoude
Maybe it's a Bader-Meinhoff thing. I just read two books in a row, completed unrelated, one American, one British, that used the phrase "tumbled to"
Moviegique
So far, of what I've read only Trollope bucks the trend: His heroines all have small hands, and he considers long fingers unsightly.
