Misheard word of the day

[kestrell]

I like to check out the quotes Alexx's e-mails have in their sig files, and this si the one which I just misheard:

Original quote: "CJE's LitCrit Rule of Thumb #12: Any story that needs a diagram to explain it needs a decent editor far more."

What I heard: "CJE's LitCrit Rule of Thumb #12: Any story that needs a diaphragm to
explain it needs a decent editor far more."
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Comments

[jesse_the_k]

tee hee. A REALLY LOUD STORY? Or one with sexual under- inner- and over-tones?

[kestrell]

I was actually thinking of the trend in recent years to produce eight hundred page novels which tell about one hundred pages-worth of story: these always seem gratuitously fertile to me, as if, just because the author typed it, it must be great.