New journal title

Mostly 'cause LJ has a new feature where you can put your journal title (and subtitle! that's right, boys, pander to the geeks!) on your info page, and I felt like something new.

So, for now, this is Mole, Delving: Hidden Things, Secret Things, Treasures in the Dark. It doesn't mean much, but it sounds cool. "Mole, delving" is from one of the OED's citations under mole, which I am taking blatantly out of context and rearranging to suit my needs--not to mention updating the orthography. The rest of it is just me riffing.

I may change it, sooner or later, but for now it's amusing me.

DLS: Unnatural Death

1st DLS post: Concerning Lord Peter Wimsey
2nd DLS post: Whose Body?
3rd DLS post: Clouds of Witness

But before I begin, a brief, digressive animadversion. To wit: I hate the HarperCollins paperback editions. The Harper & Row Perennial Library ones are fine, but HarperPaperback decided to reset them or something, and they're (a.) ugly and (b.) prone to stupid typos (esp. when DLS lapses into Greek, which is apparently a language never before encountered by HarperPaperbacks). Mostly, though, they're just ugly. I wouldn't have them if I could find anything else--and in fact I'm only burdened with two of them now, Unnatural Death and The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, but we hates them, precious, we does, yessss. Hates them forever, nasty little things.

Okay. I'm done. On to the text.

Spoilers below (including me quoting the last five paragraphs of the book). Mind your head.

( 'But if he thought the woman was being murdered--' )

Next up is The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club.

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WORKS CITED
Sayers, Dorothy L. Unnatural Death. 1927. New York: HarperPaperbacks, 1995.