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source: mastodon
date: 2023-04-09 17:08:36.42 +00
title: "Mastodon post from April 9, 2023, 110169955790045639"
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  - mastodon
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it usually drives me crazy when writers (borrowing another afterword word) peacock how well-read or at least broadly-read they are, or explode every scene into a McMaster-Carr order, but the half-a-dozen fields expanded in Novel Explosives and the etymology there-in kept my attention.