At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he will [...]
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“The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.” The Gujarati alphabet is purely phonetic. If you can pronounce a word correctly, you can spell it correctly. The rules are fairly simple. Unique letters exist for consonant sounds, and are accented in several ways (or not accented at all) depending on the vowel sound that follows. Hybrid consonant sounds are formed by literally mashing [...] During my senior year of college my friends and I attempted freestyle rapping on a number of occassions. None of us were particularly any good but it was a fun exercise and test of English skills and thinking on your feet. As I was falling asleep one night I came up with these few verses [...] I’ve just been on a kick with words lately. It’s not that surprising if you know me; plus my dad prides himself on being a bit of a wordsmith himself. Of course RSS screws up this poem (not mine!), so link click to see it fully. Most people ignore most poetry Nowhere; now here. Where now? ______ Has the action of a story, but how much more is it than just wordplay? Submitted to sixwordstories.net. televisions scream Thanks to Nik and Jeremy, my personal poet laureates. |
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