"Oh, you happy little villa!" Orwell v Dickens
no evidence of knowing anything about agriculture
Literature
How to Make a Paper Kite
The underside of your kite should have a rudder.
Every Laugh In Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda
"I laughed, and went on with my egg."
You Are Not In A Swashbuckler
You are kidding yourself if you think that this is swashbuckling.
Stories That Could Be Accurately Yet Unexpectedly Described With The Phrase "I Think I Know My Body Better Than You Do"
It's technically true -- which is the best kind of truth!
"No Shepherd, No Pastoral" and Other Genre Hallmarks
NO HOUSE NO GOTHIC
How Far Afield Can Sci-Fi and Fantasy "Fake Swearing" Get Before You Feel Uncomfortable?
On the one hand, it is unlikely that three hundred years in the future, a group of space marauders is going to rely on the same profanity as twenty-first-century North Americans. But on the other hand, everything else sounds worse.
Dr. Egg
Newton’s science and Hume’s imagination :(
Dante's Inferno, Canto VIII, Part II
Who knew locks worked in Hell?
I Want To Read A Short Story About An Old Astronaut
It's okay for the story to be poignant some of the time but it's not a sad story. He can't have dementia or anything, he's not deluded about being a young astronaut, okay. And it's not a commentary on the "decline of empire" after the space race, that's important.