1 February 06
Why I Like Shopping at the Coop
Because a third of the way through your list which you left on the counter but can pretty much remember you run into Susan who messed up her knee but still wants to go for a bike ride and by the way could you please send me any info on the wildlife programs she says and we yuk it up and then up shows Warren the Arboretum Superintendent and Susan says hi Warren and I say Warren I was just going to call you to ask you about gray pines like specifically how did the Native Americans use them and he says oh have you seen the painting of them on the wall over here and we all say botany botany here in the coop and he says they ate the seeds but you’d need exactly the right kind of groove on a rock so they don’t smash and then they cooked the whole cone when it was green but then his cellphone goes off and he says they didn’t use them as cellphones and then in the checkout line there’s Julie and she says you didn’t come to my chocolate tasting event tonight and I say well no I’m doing Weightwatchers but just then Numenius slaps down a Chocolove Dark with Orange Peel on the belt and we all laugh and complain how after forty nothing quite works right but chocolate makes it better.
- Smiling all the way through reading this yet at the same time pondering would I dare share this creative and vividly descriptive sentence with any of my students and if I did would they understand that for prose like this to actually work and communicate with an audience one has to work even harder than she would on the most sophisticated grammatically correct sentence she had ever written and would she even know where to begin to write such a sentence or better yet would I allow her to create such beauty in a college essay I was then going to have to grade?— Chris 2. February 2006, 17:38 Link
- I love it, Pica, not just the style but the content too. I would never have thought of asking such a question and thus would never received such an interesting answer, and i trust you are going to expand on both.— Natalie 3. February 2006, 09:24 Link
- Whoa baby, this is really GOOD!— Doc Rock 5. February 2006, 12:16 Link
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