Believe It or Not

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One of "my" colleges (both as a student and as a teacher) recently gave out a prize for the best fourth novel!

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  1. Josiah Neeley3:06 PM

    Gene,

    You've already written one novel, right? So all you have to do is write a second, third, and forth one between now and July, and you'll be eligible.

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  2. gcallah3:22 PM

    Well, I need to really rush, because it's July, 2009.

    Apparently, they wanted to give an award to some guy who was going to give a talk at St. Francis, and he had just published his fourth book, so it was a good way to direct the award his way.

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  3. Anonymous4:16 PM

    Like the "help wanted: engineer" ads that detail desired experience and education so precisely that -what do you know?! only one person in the world fits.

    They used to have a lot of those in the detroit papers. Back in the days of help wanted ads and automotive engineers.

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  4. Anonymous4:16 PM

    Like the "help wanted: engineer" ads that detail desired experience and education so precisely that -what do you know?! only one person in the world fits.

    They used to have a lot of those in the detroit papers. Back in the days of help wanted ads and automotive engineers.

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  5. gcallah4:40 PM

    Argosy, I believe that profession still exists in Japan and Korea.

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