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Sun Jun 5 06:00:01 EDT 2022
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Slept from one-thirty to eight.
Cloudy with scattered rain showers.
Highs in the lower 70s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of showers 50 percent.
Finished reading This Is How They Tell Me the World Will End.
The angle of the zero-day market was interesting, but the rest was better handled in Sandworm.
Vacuumed.
Ordered groceries.
https://kottke.org/21/11/the-ten-rules-of-golden-age-detective-fiction
https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/the-murder-mystery-edition?s=r
https://elizabethspanncraig.com/mystery-writing-tips/ten-commandments-detective-fiction-1929-brief-history/
> 1. The criminal must be someone mentioned in the early part of the story, but must not be anyone whose thoughts the reader has been allowed to follow.
> 2. All supernatural or preternatural agencies are ruled out as a matter of course.
> 3. Not more than one secret room or passage is allowable.
> 4. No hitherto undiscovered poisons may be used, nor any appliance which will need a long scientific explanation at the end.
> 5. No racial stereotypes.
> 6. No accident must ever help the detective, nor must he ever have an unaccountable intuition which proves to be right.
> 7. The detective must not himself commit the crime.
> 8. The detective must not light on any clues which are not instantly produced for the inspection of the reader.
> 9. The stupid friend of the detective, the Watson, must not conceal any thoughts which pass through his mind; his intelligence must be slightly, but very slightly, below that of the average reader.
> 10. Twin brothers, and doubles generally, must not appear unless we have been duly prepared for them.
Servings: grains 0/6, fruit 0/4, vegetables 0/4, dairy 0/2, meat 0/3, nuts 0/0.5
Lunch: coffee
Afternoon snack:
Dinner:
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