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Hey! Do you have any favorite scenes in What You Think is Right?
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I particularly detested the past-perfect progressive tense, which I called the Annoying PPP: a continuous action completed at some point in the past. I felt giddy every time I heard the Annoying PPP; I just couldn’t understand how anyone was able to grasp something so complex. For example, my grammar book said: “Peter had been painting his house for weeks, but he finally gave up.” My immediate reaction, even before I got to the grammatical explanation, was: my God, how could someone paint his house for weeks and still give up? I just couldn’t see how time itself could regulate people’s actions as if they were little clocks! As for the grammar, the word order “had been” and the added flourishes like “ing” made my stomach churn. They were bizarre decorations that did nothing but obscure a simple, strong building. My instinct was to say something like: “Peter tries to paint his house, but sadness overwhelms him, causing him to lay down his brushes and give up his dream.”
Xiaolu Guo, Once Upon a Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up, excerpted in The Guardian here (via emberlinsmiscellany)
I want to infect you with the tremendous excitement of living, because I believe that you have the strength to bear it.
Tennessee Williams, from The Selected Letters: 1920-1945 (via victoriajoan)
“Time, I think, is like walking backward away from something: say, from a kiss. First there is the kiss; then you step back, and the eyes fill up your vision, then the eyes are framed in the face as you step further away; the face then is part of a body, and then the body is framed in a doorway, then the doorway framed in the trees beside it. The path grows longer and the door smaller, the trees fill up your sight and the door is lost, then the path is lost in the woods and the woods lost in the hills. Yet somewhere in the center still is the kiss. That’s what time is like.”
— John Crowley, from Engine Summer (Doubleday, 1979)
Anonymous asked:
*stops you in the middle of the street* *points a mic in your face* 🎤: The people want to know, how does it feel to be wonderful? ( also, unrelated but equally serious topic, have you been staying hydrated?)
Hahaha anon this is so lovely! I’m sending you all my best wishes and hydration tablets.
Anonymous asked:
For the Fanfic ask game:
B, L, M, O please ❤
Hey there! Thanks for these asks
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