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"Katherine _had had_ doubts about Cayce concluding, it was true, but they had come to an agreement, and _had had_ a good closure." (205)

...But stuttering had hads are all too visible.

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"Had had" is actually quite correct, according to my high-school english professor. The first "Had" being the past perfect tense of the verb "Have Been (indicating that a change occured in time)", the second "had" being the auxillary verb "to have (as in possess)" in past tense.

Of course "had had" can be perfectly correct and seems to be in this instance.

And if the person who was complaining was complaining about style then this isn't the thread for it.

I know this thread is kind of moribund, but just cutting and pasting from the original thread where mistakes were listed:

Two more things:
One is that Cayce opened up the browers and just "typed Fetish:Footage:Forum" (not an exact quote).
Types it where? That's not a url! Types it into Google? Types it and hopes for Damien to have it in his browser memory? Maybe it's just an error that should be "types the address of F:F:F" or similar.
The second is that you have F:F:F in the brower memory.
Then someone breaks in and puts Asian Sluts above it. Then she goes to the Asian Sluts page, or as written "opens it". When she's looked at it, F:F:F is "followed twice by Asian Sluts". If she got to it using the "Go" menu, it wouldn't be, would it? I don't know a browser that works that way.

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Originally posted by englishvoodoo:
The only one i noticed was
p.67: Frank Geary (should be Gehry)

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heh, I noticed that too and was wondering if I was spelling his name wrong all this time.

and what about those phone call cards....
haven't seen anyone use one of those in at least 3 yrs.......

i've used calling cards before, their nice if your too poor to have a cell phone.

"The cowboy elite in the Loser shunned Pauley out of some strange group anxiety, almost a superstition. McCoy Pauley, Lazarus of cyberspace....
And his heart had done for him in the end. His surplus Russian heart, implanted in a POW camp during the war. He's refused to replace the thing, saying he needed its particular beat to maintain his sense of timing."

They are still very useful if you are in a foreign country and your mobile phone does not work, or if it is too expensive for you. Lately I have used them in Japan, the USA and UK (what do you mean there is no signal in Islay island?).

José

Islay, as in the spot they make Laphroaig?

I hope you made good use of your time there!

As many "friends of Laphroaig", I own a square foot of Islay, that I lease to Laphroaig distillery for the rent of a dram, payable only at the distillery. Very charming visit, and very nice people.

In Islay you also have Lagavulin (good whisky, bad PR), Ardbeg, Caol Ila, Bowmore, Bunnahabhain and Bruichladdich, just of single malts, and Islay whisky makes it into most of the blendeds.

Good trip for whisky lovers, and very pleasant people and landscape. Makes also for very interesting driving, between avoiding sheep sleeping on the one lane road, other cars (everybody unfailingly polite) and low flying geese. I recommend going by ferry with a rented car. It is good bicycle terrain, but the strong winds and the atlantic storms make for a too exciting cycling.

Does it show I like Islay?

José

I keep thinking that Hotmail should be capitialized througout - it keeps coming up as just a regular word/verb, but it is in fact a noun.

I don't have the book with me at the moment, but I read the hardback on a flight last night and distinctly recall the street corner "Houston and Varrick" mentioned towards the end of some chapter towards the middle of the book. It's actually Varick street.