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marina_bonomi) wrote2013-01-02 10:11 pm
marina_bonomi) wrote2013-01-02 10:11 pm
Those small things...
That throw one straight out of a book with no chance of recovery...
Yesterday I downloaded a sample of a book set in a science fiction world I like and dove in.
I was liking it, there was this android policeman waking up in an hotel (much to his dismay, since he never sleeps), suddenly realizing he was sharing the bed with a female in state of undress, then she wakes up, asks a question, and the whole mood falls apart since the author writes:
[i]Her tone was a pleasant baritone, made slightly deeper because she had just awoken[/i]
Well, given that baritone is a [i]male [/i]timbre, and the one deeper than that is bass, I can't help but see this 1.70 m., 57 kilos lady in the leading role in [i]Boris Godunov[/i], and the picture I get of the scene makes me burst out laughing every time.
Since there is no hint watsoever that this character is anything else than a biological female, my guess is that the author meant to write 'alto' and 'baritone' slipped in instead. As incidents go I think this qualifies as epic.
Yesterday I downloaded a sample of a book set in a science fiction world I like and dove in.
I was liking it, there was this android policeman waking up in an hotel (much to his dismay, since he never sleeps), suddenly realizing he was sharing the bed with a female in state of undress, then she wakes up, asks a question, and the whole mood falls apart since the author writes:
[i]Her tone was a pleasant baritone, made slightly deeper because she had just awoken[/i]
Well, given that baritone is a [i]male [/i]timbre, and the one deeper than that is bass, I can't help but see this 1.70 m., 57 kilos lady in the leading role in [i]Boris Godunov[/i], and the picture I get of the scene makes me burst out laughing every time.
Since there is no hint watsoever that this character is anything else than a biological female, my guess is that the author meant to write 'alto' and 'baritone' slipped in instead. As incidents go I think this qualifies as epic.
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