On Feb 19, 10:14 pm, "John W." <worthj1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 18, 7:36 pm, "Marvel" <mana...@nospam.com> wrote:
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> > "Declan Murphy" <declan_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> >news:48d76a9d-7782-49df-86cd-e38b2333a9f8@l33g2000pri.googlegroups.com...
> > On Feb 16, 10:26 pm, "John W." <worthj1...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > On Feb 16, 3:57 am, Declan Murphy <declan_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > On Feb 13, 10:12 pm, "John W." <worthj1...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > > On Feb 12, 8:00 pm, "Marvel" <mana...@nospam.com> wrote:
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> > > > > > So if I'm picking up what you're throwing down here, the dictionary
> > > > > > you are
> > > > > > compiling is kinda so so.
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> > > > > Exactly. But it's a lot of fun.
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> > > > > John W.
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> > > > What happened to the novel?
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> > > Still slugging away; I have two now. One's non-fiction about my trip
> > > to India, a first-person perspective on outsourcing; the other is too
> > > hard to explain. But it's much easier and more fun to write than it is
> > > to get an agent interested.
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> > >You could always just web-publish it. 200-400 words per file, loaded
> > >with ads etc, paypal or whatever. It would also make it much easier to
> > >for you to publish all those photos of you in compromising positions
> > >etc.
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> > You will never pry those words from him, he will be eighty years old and
> > still talking about it.
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> I have to have something to regret not doing when I get old. Otherwise
> how I can I properly call myself a crotchety old man?

Hang on hang on hang on....

a) You are already a crotchety old man.
b) While procrastination can be an occasional virtue (google up
"sneaker f*cker strategy"), it seems a bit odd to deliberately not do
something, when the things we regret not doing seem to accumulate
without any conscious effort in any case.