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This is by way of an explanation because it appears that I'm in trouble for making my previous post. I have on one of my stacks of papers a rather large colour media kit about a new book. It contains apostrophes that are not used correctly. These few sheets of glossy paper are the actual item that prompted the post yesterday. So unless you produced that media kit, the post was not specifically prompted by anything you said or did.

That kit was a trigger. I wasn't targetting a specific publisher. In fact, I wasn't targetting anyone in particular. I have seen so many misused apostrophes around recently that it just got to me and I was having a little whinge. A whole bunch of my friends complain publicly about misused apostrophes on a regular basis, so I had assumed that it was within the bounds of reasonableness to do so. I'm now very sorry I did so.

To those who were upset, I'm doubly sorry.

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And, in my other world, I'm trying to sort out the relationship between Saint-Gilles and Saint-Guilhem-le-Desert. Saint-Guilhem has better stories, which I knew already, and they both have their saints and both saints are pretty cool. I'm more interested in the geology, right now, and just how the various pilgrim routes touched them. I think I need a geological map. I'm getting the main 12th century text on the subject, which will help, and I have one volume of the earlier printed edition of the Latin, which will also help. None of this is instant, though. I want to know the geology under Saint-Guilhem now!

William of Orange is still my favourite epic hero. The more I discover about the man behind the epics, the more fascinated I am. If ever I have money and health enough, I shall visit his bones.