PB story continues...

[j_cheney]

19K, and the horses are at the starting line....I do know which horse is going to win, BTW. I expect to finished the hideously sloppy first rough draft tonight, and it should clock in between 21 and 22 K.

Then I'll let it sit for a while, do some desultory research on horse racing and how you go about replacing your jockey at the last minute. (in terms of whom you have to tell...The Saratoga Racing Association?)

I'm dethroning the horse who actually won the Hopeful Stakes in 1905. However, I'll bet there would be a high percentage of people (if this ever gets published) who:
a) don't even know that there was a Hopeful Stakes in 1905 (say, 85%)
b) don't know there was horse racing in Saratoga Springs in 1905 (70%)
c) don't know that there really is a town called Saratoga Springs (60%)
d) don't know what a stakes races is (60%)
e) don't know what a jockey is (20% probably need the word 'disc' in front of it)
f) don't care about verisimilitude anyway.... (10%)

It's a terrible rough draft.

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[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

My parents had an aversion to the line "clouds in my coffee" and my mom thought it was stupid that it said "You had one eye in the mirror as you watched yourself gavotte," because, she said, whoever gavottes these days?

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Pbbt!

You know, there's probably a gavotting club somewhere, plus Gavotter's Monthly Magazine. People have weird hobbies ;o)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

They (we!) sure do, and the Internet lets us all find each other. Dear, dear Internet :D