Fitfully

not regularly or continuously; intermittently*

EOFFTV

EOFFTV

@eofftv.bsky.social

The Perfect Woman (1949) is only marginally science fiction. There's a female humanoid robot but she's not in it a great deal and the rest is a rather long-in-the-tooth and only fitfully amusing comedy that must have seemed dated even in 1949.

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Thaliarchus

Thaliarchus

@thaliarchus.bsky.social

Well, I got about four hours of sleep and about six hours of fitfully dozing through back pain.

But that wasn't all the back's fault: the temporal disolacation's pretty brutal. JST has me waking up exactly when I would go to bed in the UK.

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Mostly Harmless

Mostly Harmless

@whalepetunias.bsky.social

He looked back at his fellows uneasily and scratched fitfully at his cheek. He seemed to be wrestling with some deep inner confusion, as if everything he wanted to say and everything he thought were entirely different things, between which he could see no possible connection.

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