David Dufty

Author, living in Canberra. coffee enjoyer.

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Here's an interview with me on ABC Radio National about my new book, "Charles Todd's Magnificent Obsession: the epic race to connect Australia to the world". Thanks @AllenAndUnwin
https://t.co/uZKGk6q8C8

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@DaMiniDitkas @omgsidewalks Wrong

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@yesinmybackyard @GerardGuey The Works is a great album. Not a single dud track.

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@paulg Reminds me of a Mark Twain quote.

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@AZHeidiP @DCSas You are correct. There people don’t know what they’re talking about.

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@politicalmath It’s funny, exciting, dry, philosophical, absurd, and horrific, depending on which part you are reading.

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@TheMindScourge Yeah I agree with you that it's probably "terrible" from a screenplay point of view.

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@PessoaA99 @owenbroadcast That was my thought, too. It looks like (not saying it 'is', but 'looks like') either AI was involved in the process somewhere, or the passage was written to mimic AI.

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@SketchesbyBoze Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorn?

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@kamilkazani An astute point.

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@Josh_Merfeld @Anthurium_xanth @JamesBland_Econ I agree with this.

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@DaimonLaw @mattyglesias That’s a popular theory but it’s not true. It came from the song “Yankee doodle dandy” which was very popular in Australia in the early 20th century.

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@kalezelden Call of the Wild?

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@markmorey5 @ChrisC_Writes I agree it’s good advice for emotions, but that’s its main benefit. people seem to want it to apply for all kinds of other things as well. The literary greats do plenty of “telling”.

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@ShenmueEst @xyphophorus @ABasedNeoLib @Ultimatum00001 @_GirlSay Correct. The lightning is in film adaptations of Frankenstein but isn’t in the book.

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@Noahpinion They’re very different. I love both.

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@ScottMcCreaWest I read Dune long ago at the age of fourteen, when I borrowed it from my school library. It’s psychologically dense but hardly “unreadable.” The school library also had his novel “The Dragon in the Sea” and I enjoyed that too.

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@Thomasdelvasto_ Also completely self paced.

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@200divesL8r @MrDanielBuck Well, as a nonfiction author I can’t argue with you on that.