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I've just realized something odd.

I'm sufficiently used to watching subtitled DVDs in languages I know glancingly or fairly well, for language practice, that when I watch a DVD in a language I don't speak at all, it's very disconcerting, and I keep trying to make out the words.

And to think I used to make fun of all those people who wouldn't watch subtitled movies...

(Which brings to mind a tale of Suburban North Carolina: the sign at the movie theater said, roughly, "It's a Chinese movie, and it's Chinese all the way through, so don't come asking for a refund." Which is really funny).

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...You know how they say that if you just keep writing and keep writing and don't try too hard to be stylish, you'll develop a style on your own?

I think they're actually right. I think I have a style.

I'm not sure if it's a particularly good style. No doubt I need to read a lot more fiction that wasn't written in the second half of the 20th century. Still, it is fairly serviceable for a noirish urban fantasy.