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It's a weird feeling when you discover an old list you made and yet have no memory of what any of it means. Literary scalawag Jonathan Caws-Elwitt found this great description in Evenfield, by Rachel Ferguson:
Sometimes I come across an old overlooked worry-list. The items on one ran:
1 Row with A.
2 No letter from C.
3 Tooth.
4 Look for green overall again.
5 No ideas for magazine story.
6 What D said last week (Wed: 7th).
7 People I ought to be dining.
And I am harassed this time by occasional total failure to remember who the ‘C’ of the missing letter was or what the deuce ‘D’ had ‘said’, which only shows that if you sit tight long enough nothing matters at all, while I know that this particular brand of philosophy is no good and never will be to people like myself. One must live. And worrying is probably a part of the business and a sign that one is still in the swim! It is rather the same thing with old letters that you re-read. Like a rude, whispering couple who exclude you from the conversation, they indulge in allusions you can’t trace, hint at emotions you can’t recall, and make infuriating plans of the outcome of which your mind is a complete blank. ‘Who is this stranger hissing in a corner?’ one despairingly thinks, and it is oneself, as little as five years ago. And as for the letters dating further back, you get well-nigh to the stage of begging the correspondence to let you in on the conversation, to give you at that moment a little of the love expressed for you in the letter of which you are dimly jealous! You almost whimper, ‘It’s Barbara asking my best friend, in those days’, and it’s no good at all. The Barbara of the note excludes the Barbara who holds it in her hand (though you feel she would be miserably remorseful, eagerly, tenderly explanatory, if you did meet again). Meanwhile, you are left hiding a secret from yourself, and a most extraordinary and forlorn sensation it is.
The Lady Dowager Oddfellow has long been perplexed by her own list on the cardboard back of a pad (pictured). Though it's unmistakably her handwriting, she has absolutely no idea what any of it means. The words are:
Jupiter
Mars
she
I'm not in my body
milkshake
abstract
yes/no
Hawaii
any vague sexual reference
Mastercard/Visa
chap
anti-intellectualism
poisonous food
doctor's bills
IGNORANCE is too harsh
G.O.D.
mush in people's mouths
any playfulness
Indian accent jokes
tennis ball
no clothes
Chinese restaurant
greediness
silence
carried list in wallet
screaming into pillow
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
May 30, 2016 |
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Here's all you have to do:
- All you have to do is listen. (Rob Kapilow, 2008)
- All you have to do is ask. (Meredith Walters, 2007)
- All you have to do is be the middleman. (Jay Abraham, Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got, 2000)
- All you have to do is win. (Trent Frayne, 1968)
- All you have to do is glance at your calendar. (Savitri Ramaiah, Lifestyle During Pregnancy, 2003)
- All you have to do is balance your weight. (Edwin Burford, Skiing Made Simple, 2007)
- All you have to do is share your experience, strength, and hope. (Robert Perkinson, The Gambling Addiction Patient Workbook, 2003)
- All you have to do is select items from a series of menus and the system does all the work. (Dinesh Maidasani, Comprehensive Information Technology)
- All you have to do is walk out your front door. (Howard Wimer, Inner Guidance and the Four Spiritual Gifts, 2014)
- All you have to do is to hit the RIGHT target with the RIGHT weapon at the RIGHT time. (J. C. Kemmerer, Tournament Sparring, 2011)
- All you have to do is be open. (J. K. Ellis, Perfected Mind Control, 2006)
- All you have to do is to make it happen. (Terence Hamilton-Morris, Spirit Rises, 2013)
- All you have to do is cut your calories and watch what you eat. (Dag Albright, Chicks, 2007)
- All you have to do is sort out your own theory of direct mail. (Tony Attwood, Education Marketing, 2005)
- All you have to do is think properly. (Charles Mangua, Son of Woman in Mombasa, 1986)
- All you have to do is be still and tap into the energy. (Danielle Garcia, Angel Blessings, 2008)
- All you have to do is put that down. (Zane, Infinite Words, 2015)
- All you have to do is live the life. (Angus Buchan, Now is the Time, 2014)
- All you have to do is decide what you want to change. (Nevaeh Michael, Fall in Love Again, 2012)
- All you have to do is start. (Leo Babauta, Zen to Done)
- All you have to do is send people to the offer and hope they buy. (Tracy Repchuk, 31 Days to Millionaire Marketing Miracles, 2013)
- All you have to do is change your thoughts. (Theron J. Houston, I Once Was Lost, 2009)
- All you have to do is have Ralph watched when he comes into your city. (Jeff Inlo, Soul View)
- All you have to do is state firmly but in a friendly manner, "No thanks, I have other plans." (Keys to Learning, 2007)
- All you have to do is get out of your comfort zone and be ready for new experiences. (Romy Miller, How to Be the Man Women Want, 2009)
- All you have to do is find a sheet of words, the words being colours. (Michael Robinson, 10 Ways to Enhance Your Mind and Become More Efficient, 2013)
- All you have to do is sit back and wait for the money to start rolling in. (Marketing your Ebook)
- All you have to do is work backwards and precisely calculate what has to happen to make that journey. (Getting Everything You Can Out Of All You've Got, 2013)
- All you have to do is circle all that apply. (S. F. Berk, The Gender Factory, 2012)
- All you have to do is simply attend. (Jonathan C. Smith, Relaxation, Meditation, & Mindfulness, 2005)
- All you have to do is list what you want out of life and then sign your name at the bottom. (Alternate Gerrolds: An Assortment of Fictitious Lives, 2013)
- All you have to do is believe, let go of the past, and move forward! (Tammy Lynn Robinson, Thoughts of the Heart, 2013)
- All you have to do is show up. (Nancy Whitney-Reiter, Now is the Time to Do What You Love, 2009)
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