Today’s Best Sentence
From the SABR biography of Amos Rusie, one of the great 19th-Century pitchers:
His arm was gone, and his heavy drinking did not alleviate the situation.
by Mike Schilling · July 30, 2015
From the SABR biography of Amos Rusie, one of the great 19th-Century pitchers:
His arm was gone, and his heavy drinking did not alleviate the situation.
Mike Schilling
Mike has been a software engineer far longer than he would like to admit. He has strong opinions on baseball, software, science fiction, comedy, contract bridge, and European history, any of which he's willing to share with almost no prompting whatsoever.
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So many potential contexts where it would perfectly apply. A WWI memoir. A Kafkaesque novel. If I were presented with it de novo in a game where you had to invent a piece of literature it came from, I’m not sure baseball is a context I’d think of to place it in.
Also: it’s a great possibility for a story prompt, one of which hasn’t appeared here for a while. I guess if something were published using it, it’d have to be an epigraph rather than a line in the story, but that’s okay right?Report
It;s a trope in Carl Hiaasen novels that one of the bad guys loses or at least badly mangles an arm. And they there’s Larry Niven’s Gil The ARM, who lost his real arm and got a psychic one in return.Report
What do you think, should we make it a story prompt? Or the fact that’s it’s someone’s work means we shouldn’t?
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Didn’t one of Hiaasen’s bad guys have a weed wacker for a prosthetic hand in one of his books?Report
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“Ah. My arm is missing.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jidZCvGHdBM&t=3m30sReport