Eric Mayer
Byzantine Blog

Probably the only vaguely interesting thing about me is that with my wife, Mary Reed, I co-author the John the Eunuch mystery series set in sixth century Constantinople. But that doesn't stop me from dwelling here on the boring minutiae of the rest of my life, present and past, along with the occasional word about writing.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
--Michel de Montaigne

Scintillatingly Vapid

Someone will find a way to make a game out of anything. Take the internet, with its billions of pages of information and an incredibly sophisticated search engine like Google. Never mind research, let's Googlewhack! You probably know how the typical Google search returns something like 16, 324 results? Well, googlewhackers are on a quest for two word search terms for which Google returns only a single hit. I guess that means those two words -- and they have to be real, dictionary words -- show up together on only one page out of all the pages in the world. Pretty amazing. I admit I came up with a googlewhack quickly: scintillatingly vapid. Probably I was thinking about the poems written by a character in our upcoming Five For Silver. Then again, some might charaterize most Byzantine literature as scintillatingly vapid. Now I regret I didn't use the phrase in the the novel. Maybe that's my next task, to use a googlewhack in a book, or find one we've already put there.


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