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adj.- Rushing precipitously forward.

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  • These have their place, just as audio books do but publishers are rushing like gadarene swine over the cliff to predict and even encourage the demise of the printed book.
  • This time around I found a fascinating young adult series of retold faery novels by various authors at an independent bookstore in Vermont, when I was visiting gadarene...
  • Sestinas have been coming up all over the place in the past few days, in discussions in other people's journals (waves to gadarene and rosefox), in personal emails,...
  • Jan. 18th, 2006 at 2:59 PM gadarene has thrown down the gauntlet, meme-wise well, not really, she doesn't seem to be the type of person for whom gauntlet-throwing is a...
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