On a busy European street, the killer serpentined through a crowd. He was a powerful man. Dark and potent. Deceptively agile. His muscles still felt hard from the thrill of his meeting.
Yeah. I enjoy John Langdon's work, and have a first edition copy of Wordplay right next to my battered old copy of Scott Kim's Inversions on my shelf. Not that I'm complaining about these $50 checks, but why couldn't he have had the same last name as a character created by an equally popular but competent writer?
Just to illuminate how wacky Brown's mythos is: If no one had ever crafted a word into an ambigram, the word "ambigram" wouldn't exist, because in real life it was coined as a term for exactly that. People certainly wouldn't be using it to describe any simple symmetrical shape like circles and crosses.
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Just to illuminate how wacky Brown's mythos is: If no one had ever crafted a word into an ambigram, the word "ambigram" wouldn't exist, because in real life it was coined as a term for exactly that. People certainly wouldn't be using it to describe any simple symmetrical shape like circles and crosses.