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* CrossesTheLineTwice: When talking about how Dutch sometimes sounds remarkably like a garbled version of English (especially as it's speakers so often effortlessly switch between the two) Bryson conjures this jaw dropping exchange between a hotel proprietor and his unseen wife:
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* CrossesTheLineTwice: When talking about how Dutch sometimes sounds remarkably like a garbled version of English (especially as it's its speakers so often effortlessly switch between the two) Bryson conjures this jaw dropping exchange between a hotel proprietor and his unseen wife:
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* CrossesTheLineTwice: When talking about how Dutch sometimes sounds remarkably like a garbled version of English (especially as it's speakers so often effortlessly switch between the two) Bryson conjures this jaw dropping exchange between a hotel proprietor and his unseen wife:
--> "I presented myself at a small hotel on Prinsengracht and asked the kind-faced proprietor if he had a single room. "Oh I don’t believe so", he said (in English). "But let me check with my wife". He thrust his head through a doorway of beaded curtains and called "Marta, what stirs in your leggings? Are you most moist?". From the back a voice bellowed, "No, but I tingle when I squirt!"
--> "I presented myself at a small hotel on Prinsengracht and asked the kind-faced proprietor if he had a single room. "Oh I don’t believe so", he said (in English). "But let me check with my wife". He thrust his head through a doorway of beaded curtains and called "Marta, what stirs in your leggings? Are you most moist?". From the back a voice bellowed, "No, but I tingle when I squirt!"
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* NightmareFuel: ''Many'' descriptions of Australian wildlife and the travails of outback explorers (though it's all TruthInTelevision...). Also the descriptions of potential megadisasters in ''Short History''. (Now I've [[MadeMyselfSad made myself scared]]...)
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* NightmareFuel: ''Many'' descriptions of Australian wildlife and the travails of outback explorers (though it's all TruthInTelevision...). Also the descriptions of potential megadisasters in ''Short History''. (Now I've [[MadeMyselfSad made myself scared]]...)History''.
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* FridgeLogic: One of his ''Notes From a Big Country'' was partly devoted to examining all the gaping plot holes in ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark''.
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: It is possible to track a distinct evolution in Bryson's attitudes and prejudices reading his books chronologically. He seems to become mellower and less judgmental in later books, perhaps as he becomes increasingly learned. In earlier books there was a hint of misogyny but in his most recent books he seems to have come over to the side of feminism (he uses 'she' as a default pronoun and is very active in documenting the achievements of women is his books about history and science, and is keen to denounce their often unacknowledged importance to their fields).The writer of books like 'A Short History Of NEarly Everything' and 'At Home' feels like a much more informed and liberal man that the writer of 'The Lost Continent'.
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: ''Many'' descriptions of Australian wildlife and the travails of outback explorers (though it's all TruthInTelevision...). Also the descriptions of potential megadisasters in ''Short History''. (Now I've [[MadeMyselfSad made myself scared]]...)
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* NightmareFuel: ''Many'' descriptions of Australian wildlife and the travails of outback explorers (though it's all TruthInTelevision...). Also the descriptions of potential megadisasters in ''Short History''. (Now I've [[MadeMyselfSad made myself scared]]...)
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*CharacterizationMarchesOn: It is possible to track a distinct evolution in Bryson's attitudes and prejudices reading his books chronologically. He seems to become mellower and less judgmental in later books, perhaps as he becomes increasingly learned. In earlier books there was a hint of misogyny but in his most recent books he seems to have come over to the side of feminism (he uses 'she' as a default pronoun and is very active in documenting the achievements of women is his books about history and science, and is keen to denounce their often unacknowledged importance to their fields).The writer of books like 'A Short History Of NEarly Everything' and 'At Home' feels like a much more informed and liberal man that the writer of 'The Lost Continent'.
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: ''Many'' descriptions of Australian wildlife and the travails of outback explorers (though it's all TruthInTelevision...). Also the descriptions of potential megadisasters in ''Short History''. (Now I've [[MadeMyselfSad made myself scared]]...)
* NewerThanTheyThink: Australia's Trans-Continental Railway
** As well as the reach of Australian utilities, geographical knowledge of the place, pretty much the whole country (only independent since 1901).
* NewerThanTheyThink: Australia's Trans-Continental Railway
** As well as the reach of Australian utilities, geographical knowledge of the place, pretty much the whole country (only independent since 1901).