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> “Unfortunately, you can’t just grind up a peacock feather,” said Robbins, a petite woman with a Ph.D. in organic chemistry and the empathic, wide-set blue eye
by johnchristopher 10y ago
> “Unfortunately, you can’t just grind up a peacock feather,” said Robbins, a petite woman with a Ph.D. in organic chemistry and the empathic, wide-set blue eyes of a small-town bartender, with what sounded like genuine regret.
Sigh...
- foo111 10y agoThe author is a woman. We've had this discussion before. With all the talk about machine learning here on HN, I'm surprised nobody has come up yet with an ML-powered (opt-in) filter to hide these comments away. 'Tis truly the scourge of the Internet these days.
- kpil 10y agoThe author is a bad writer.
- johnchristopher 10y agoThe author being a woman is the least of my concern. That sentence is just really, really bad and riding on some weird picturing (eh).
- kpil 10y agoThat sentence's ending crashed my reading process - after thinking about the correlations related to small towns, bartenders and googly eyed girls for a while I had to reset and restart...