Sea Monster in the Clouds

On October 15, 2022, I was comin' up to the intersection of SW 44th and May in good ole OKC when I saw a suspicious cloud in the east.

And that cloud reminded me of a photo of a water monster I had seen somewhere.

It was this 1977 photo of Champ, the rumored critter of Lake Champlain, a body of water shared by Vermont, Quebec, and Vermont.

Here's a closer view of the cloud.

Just for fun, here's another similar image, from page 79 of the oh-so-fun 1957 book David and the Phoenix, by Edward Ormondroyd.  You can read an interview with author Ormondroyd here.

I encourage you to read that book!  It's so much fun.

See you Monday!

  

In Books Be Silliness!

Herewith are a few things which amused me in reading some of the three-thousand-plus books I have logged.

From page 176 of Philip José Farmer's The Fabulous Riverboat, we have a sentence towards the end of the big paragraph, "They had more gall than France."  This tickled me because I think Farmer was joshing about Gaul, the Roman province which included France.  You're familiar with the opening words of Julius Caesar's The Gallic Wars?  "All Gaul is divided into three parts," or ""Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres," as we learned in Latin Class.

I don't know if a computer is to blame, but here in Jon Burlingame's great book Music for Prime Time, we have an odd hyphenation.  That is, an odd NON-hyphenation.  I mean ... aw, shucks!  Shouldn't that phrase be rendered the same way ALL THE TIME, especially in adjacent sentences?

In the 2020 spy thriller Black Flag by David Ricciardi, we are told that "a croc's jaws were the most powerful force in the mammalian world."  Somebody tell this guy that crocodiles ARE REPTILES, not mammals.  Sheesh!

Well, that's enough silliness for today.  See you on Thursday!