I am, I think, very near to completing my life's work so far.
After I get some feedback from a couple reviewers, I'll submit a paper to
Wilmott Magazine. You'll want to have a copy of that issue.
If
Wilmott declines to publish -- it's long for a magazine article -- I'll arrange here to make the paper available to anyone interested.
Salient points of the paper:
- Number of types of birds referenced: 3 (parrot, hummingbird, buzzard)
- References to Lord of the Rings: 1
The paper is more designed for a purely academic publication, but those are so much of a pain in the ass that I'm too disinterested in and too old anyway to care about academia, and it's already skirting the limits of readable English without being shoe-horned into some journal's standard writing style. And did I mention the reference to
Lord of the Rings -- ?
Cheers, everyone.