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Post by Hermes on Feb 3, 2015 14:44:10 GMT -5
I think that whatever the source of it, 'watermelon' is probably DH's least favourite word right now, and we should not embarrass him by using it.
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Post by gliquey on Feb 3, 2015 15:11:39 GMT -5
(Feel free to adapt, modify, adjust, alter, change, edit, amend or mercilessly criticize any of my suggestions; I'll be happy if just one of my ideas is used in the final product.) - There was a town, and there was a mystery, and I probably should have mentioned the man-eating turtle first.
- I should have asked the question, "Shouldn’t you have seen her last in school at this hour?"
- I should have asked the question, "If there’s nothing out there, why did I distinctly hear Theodora stomping around in boots?"
- For Beatrice – no wait, wrong series.
- For Ellington – dearest, darling, dead-to-me-once-I-was-reunited-with-Beatrice.
- I was wrong about all of it… apart from possibly that bit with the daffodils.
- I had originally thought the bell ringing might signal Sebald code, and spent hours wondering what "it less gangbusters" could possibly mean.
- "I am currently in the middle of reading a book you might enjoy—it’s called How to Prevent Delayed Ignitions after Triggering a Gun," Qwerty told me.
- Having almost run out of suitable tips for Pip and Squeak, I recommended a book about three orphans who suffer constant misfortune, become victims of evil ploys and occasionally make pasta.
- "Is this a rhetorical question?" I asked Hangfire.
I think that whatever the source of it, 'watermelon' is probably DH's least favourite word right now, and we should not embarrass him by using it. I'd probably err on the side of caution too.
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Post by bandit on Feb 3, 2015 17:13:26 GMT -5
Yeah, I think it's a great sentence, but even for someone like DH it would not be the best thing to mention such an incident on his birthday.
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Post by Cafe SalMONAlla on Feb 3, 2015 22:12:37 GMT -5
OK, you may be right. I can definitely alter the sentence later - there's lots of other things it could say. Better safe than sorry.
The book (which has nothing to do with JW) is the snappily titled Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth by EL Konigsburg. It's a freaking brilliant book which you should all read if you haven't. Mr Handler has mentioned his admiration for Konigsburg in multiple places; the first two that come to mind are here and in an old interview that I have on cassette with a writer called Leonard S Marcus.
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Post by Dante on Feb 4, 2015 3:36:39 GMT -5
Sounds like a well-chosen reference, so maybe if you can find a way of alluding to it without mentioning that suddenly controversial fruit?
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Post by Cafe SalMONAlla on Feb 4, 2015 6:53:37 GMT -5
Sounds like a well-chosen reference, so maybe if you can find a way of alluding to it without mentioning that suddenly controversial fruit? Thanks This is the revised sentence. I just used a different moment from the book.
I thought of a book my sister had meant to read, in which the heroine receives a warning from her friend, who makes her walk barefoot in the snow.
Hopefully you're all sufficiently intrigued to read the book, people.
A couple more:
- I expected her to tell me it was the wrong question, but she merely shrugged and said "don't even ask".
- "And I do not understand why the Stain'd Playhouse once allowed the audience to bring live newts into the theatre, but only on Monday nights, or how the effects in The Man Who Looked Somewhat Like Winston Churchill managed to fail every show."
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Post by Dante on Feb 4, 2015 8:16:50 GMT -5
Yes, that should be fine. Thank you for your contributions, Lemona!
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Post by Dante on Feb 5, 2015 8:17:58 GMT -5
A spin on the various allusion sentences:
"I remember the last book I read, years ago, about someone else who learned something and there was a bit of a fuss - what a waste of time!"
A little background material:
"Old Hal Hairdryer caught Stew stealing from his emporium a couple of years back; he's half-blind, but Stew didn't reckon on the other half."
And what I hope may be seen as a suitable celebratory final line:
"It was my birthday, and for now, at least, I was all right."
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Post by Dante on Feb 7, 2015 8:38:04 GMT -5
Just as an update, while we do have quite a lot of sentences at this point - I haven't counted, but I believe we're theoretically most of the way there - I would like to see more people submit. By now, I hope there are enough examples in the thread that anyone unclear on what to do has a bit more of an idea, but if you do have any questions, please feel free to ask. We have three weeks left; it's plenty of time, but I hope nobody will forgot what we're trying to achieve here.
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Post by Cafe SalMONAlla on Feb 7, 2015 10:13:23 GMT -5
Get onto it guys!
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Post by soufflé on Feb 7, 2015 10:40:40 GMT -5
I like the turtle one.
Gonna come up with something clever eventually
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Post by Teleram on Feb 7, 2015 18:49:56 GMT -5
I've already begun work on a picture of Snicket with an octopus on his head
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Post by Dante on Feb 8, 2015 3:25:31 GMT -5
Sounds great. Thanks for the response.
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Post by Kit's tits kick ticks on Feb 8, 2015 3:47:06 GMT -5
Oh pft, I totally thought of a sentence for this in my dream, and of course I forgot it when I woke up.
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Feb 8, 2015 5:55:50 GMT -5
I can have ideas
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