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FULL (CONTINUOUS)"A lovely beach, punctuated at low tide." —Jack Jackson, Trekking Atlas of the World (2006)
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 Is it true, as Momus
suggests, that there are "few tales which would not be improved by the
addition of the phrase 'suddenly, a shot rang out'"? Decide for
yourself as we alter the opening lines of . . . JANE EYRE by Charlotte Brontë There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating, that further out-door exercise was now out of the question. Suddenly, a shot rang out.
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What is funnier than sex running wild?Clue: This is according to Nelson Algren Answer: "After all, nothing is funnier than sex running wild." (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.) Citation: Nelson Algren, Entrapment and Other Writings (2009), p. 302
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Mal Content writes:
Thanks for this. It makes me miss writing those supernatural instructions and apothegms that you always made so much better (and more convincing) with your artwork! I keep wanting to do a New Dark Proverbs blog and make it work, and I think that's mostly your influence. I love the higgledy-piggledy metaphysical horse races ideas which constitute your various dissections of the game theory which language inevitably reveals itself to be (as it tentacles its way into its various convincing irrealities). I mean your diverse "series." I'm getting an image of the threads on a radial tire interweaving in space in a car commerical next to an image of the Three Fates and their threads. If I met the Fates, I think that would be the first thing I would ask them. "What is the thread count on my fate?"
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 Is it true, as Momus
suggests, that there are "few tales which would not be improved by the
addition of the phrase 'suddenly, a shot rang out'"? Decide for
yourself as we alter the opening lines of . . . HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS by Dr. Seuss Every Who Down in Who-ville Liked Christmas a lot. Suddenly a shot rang out.
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 Is it true, as Momus
suggests, that there are "few tales which would not be improved by the
addition of the phrase 'suddenly, a shot rang out'"? Decide for
yourself as we alter the opening lines of . . . THE AWAKENING by Kate Chopin A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Suddenly, a shot rang out."
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FULLThe semicolon's illuminated side is facing the reader. The semicolon appears to be completely illuminated by the reading lamp. The lighted side of the semicolon faces the reader, still and proud, like a young goddess. This means that the reader, reading lamp, and semicolon are nearly in a straight line, with the reader in the middle. The semicolon that we see is very bright from the reading lamp reflecting off it.
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