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– Shamus, Wednesday Jun 27, 2007<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

A reader wrote in to suggest this one. I admit I\u2019ve made this blunder myself. More than once. It really is easy to goof up and describe a cave in meticulous detail, while forgetting to mention the dragon laying in the middle of the chamber.<\/a><\/p>\n

Part of this is due to narrator\u2019s vanity: We know that once we mention the dragon the rest of the description is going to be ignored. We want to make sure nothing we\u2019ve written goes to waste, so we mention the most obvious details last.<\/a><\/p>\n

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