flarenut (flarenut) wrote,
flarenut
flarenut
  • Mood: cheerful

It's not rosy-fingered dawn, but it'll do

When you have to improvise at length on a regular basis, you start using tricks. The greek chanters had their epithets (dozens of descriptions they could throw in depending on how many feet they had left in a line); C and I have <Size Adjective> <Color> <Gerund, usually locomotive> <Item of Clothing>. Along with any natural or artificial obstacle and any means of circumventing same that comes in handy. I think he's onto the pattern, but he still enjoys seeing how it plays out. Only two and a half years to go, and then it will be B's turn.
Tags: rodomontade, storytelling
Subscribe

  • Why documents fall apart

    I'm working on a medium-sized technical document with a couple other people, and the first 10 or 20 minutes of every editing pass I do involves…

  • random annoyance

    For the past few days, an article has been nagging at me -- it was linked from ezra klein, and it's a mean-minded little piece by Katie Roiphe (is…

  • Thank you, tivo

    sf dream last night, or early this morning after drugging b. I've had them on and off ever since reading too much cordwainer smith in high school.…

  • Post a new comment

    Error

    Anonymous comments are disabled in this journal

    switch
    default userpic

    Your IP address will be recorded 

    Help
  • 0 comments