Also, I think any line of dialogue that starts with "Surely, Holmes. . ." is exempt from my rule -- since you're invoking one of the handful of characters in Western literature that just about everybody will recognize, it actually does more to place the reader than disorient them.
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Date: 2008-03-05 04:57 am (UTC)Also, I think any line of dialogue that starts with "Surely, Holmes. . ." is exempt from my rule -- since you're invoking one of the handful of characters in Western literature that just about everybody will recognize, it actually does more to place the reader than disorient them.
"Fucking cornfields" is still my favorite.