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"Ode on a Grecian Urn," now with 30% more fighting

The tiny “Gambling problem?” on the FanDuel ad is funny. What could possibly be contributing to gambling problems?

Heading to campus in Philly. Also watching the step.

These sentences are from very early in the first chapter of my work-in-progress, The Great American Victory, which is book three of my Great American trilogy. You can learn more about the first two published books in the series at my website scottsteinonline.com

You Odyssey, but you don't Odysstand.

If anyone is interested, I'd be happy to have my 2020 novel The Great American Deception considered for a future book club selection. Here is the starred review from Publishers Weekly and the "Get It" verdict from Kirkus Reviews.

People think I'm joking when I say that in 1989, freshman year in college, a guy from West Virginia didn't really know what it meant that I was Jewish besides, "Y'all killed Jesus, right?"

Even Brandeis is only around 35% Jewish students

You went to Yeshiva?

It's not just that he received it shortly before he was killed. There's a pic with the article that shows a bike on the sidewalk.

I just read the article. He rode the bike to the bodega where he was murdered.

I think this loses the feel of a headline (it's for sure clearer and shorter than the original)

Many of us have had the experience of being the first Jew a person ever met. Multiple times, for me.

I was a pool lifeguard in high school when the original Baywatch came out and the lack of lifeguard realism bothered me. I didn't realize everyone else was watching it with the sound off.

*If

It it's not important, it's not important, but it's there in the original.

This does not convey that he rode the bike before the shooting.

It's how he became merciless.

At least some of the time, I want my prose to make readers ask WTF they just read

If AI were capable of writing what I write, I would write something else