I found her! Cool, it's like "Where's Waldo."

Weird, I saw her right away. She's got kind of a glamor shot on that thing.

(I can't believe he sold that many pixels. I wish I'd had that idea.)

But did you see what I was hinting at, omiewise?

Given that big library of yours (some previous mecha thread about online book lists), I was betting you would.

I didn't see it. What was it? I didn't know the Cohn fact. Maybe I don't read enough. Your oblique posts sometimes (often) make me feel less than perspicacious.

Go look closely at her resume. Tell me your impressions of it.

And the Cohn isn't fact, it's fiction.

Whoa, she's an "escort"? I just glanced at it the first time, but reading it, it's clearly not the resume of someone who a)knows how to write a resume, or b) knows how to write at all. And she freelances full time and is willing to travel locally. No wonder it's a glamor shot.

I hadn't thought that! It is a damned odd resume, but "escort" didn't leap out at me, only the strange juxtaposition of her skills and experience.

I also thought the last bit was odd in its specificity ("I have a driver's license. I have access to a car.") and, for a professional writer, its sentence style. The style led to allude, in the post, to an author known for a terse brevity.

Put down the acid and back slowly away.

Well, there you go. I'm now convinced that she's a prostitute. Why else offer to drive to where the clients are?

As to the Robert Cohn thing, here's how it was: I read that as Roy Cohn, and until you just alluded to Hemingway in the thread, forgot that Robert is the name of the butt in The Sun Also Rises, and that that's a sentence from TSAR. I've been meaning to reread that, it's been a few years, but haven't gotten around to it; I've also been meaning to read a bio of Roy Cohn for the longest time.

(Sometimes, I find, I've got misreading problems. In this thread lh had to point out that the book is The Master and Margarita (no interposed 'the'). My mind boggles, I've handled that book literally hundreds of times, and every time I've read the title the way I wrote it. I've still not read it.)

Actually, I do the same thing with that title. But then I've always been very into parallel constructions. Besides, Margarita, to English speakers, sounds like a noun, not a name.

And I have to confess: for the longest time, I read your name as OmniWise. And I took that as Internet-typical grandiosity. My bad.

And your erudition frequently leaves me envious.