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One of the things that struck me, in reading "Omnilingual", was how much smoking the characters do.  I can think of at least three instances of the main character lighting a cigarette, and they're mentioned at least a few more times.  This in an environment of extremely ancient, archaeologically-significant ruins, with a mostly-oxygen atmosphere, while dealing with very, very old paper artifacts--leaving aside, because Piper didn't know about them, the bad health effects of smoking.

Tomorrow I'm off to the doctor's, to ask for sleeping pills, antidepressant meds, or both.  Maybe I can get something that inhibits clotting, to offset the Pill*?  Whatever, I'm sick of being tired all the time and if I have to medicate myself to get a break, I'm gonna do it.  I don't have to like it, though.

I really like Steve Stirling's stuff, but I'm beginning to wonder if I ought to be buying it--he's turned into something of a neocon asshole, as witness his intrusion into a thread about "what else could we have done with the money we've spent on Iraq" with a snarky comment "wondering" why "some people" want the US to fail (at comment #222). 

* Hey, at least I don't smoke... 

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