A short essay by Borges, and a meme
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TRIPPING BALLS!!11! I feel bad that Andy Warhol never got to see Twitter, and that Borges never got to see a Mandelbox. Well, he wouldn't have been able to see it anyway, c r y i n g
Viadira, the first lines of my last 21 10 stories in reverse chronological order.
1) The builders had started on the third floor and moved up, like an infestation of termites. [x]
2) The Winter Soldier has a problem. [x]
3) Steve hears “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” while getting takeaway from one of the glass-fronted coffee shops (not diners; not delis; not bars) dotted all over Midtown. [x]
4) At first Richard spoke nothing of the language, but he picked up the essentials quickly, with minimal effort. [x]
5) “Buy me a beer,” someone says. [x]
6) La Rochelle was War, which was a whole other game from International Espionage. [x]
7) She was walking home from Boxhagener Platz, in the snow, when her phone rang. [x]
8) How," John said, once Rory had glared daggers at Sherlock and taken off after his fuming spouse, "did you know about the child psychologist?" [x]
9) I have a sucky memory for names. [x]
10) Ban said he didn't believe he and Ginji could've run up a 3,000,000-yen tab at the Honky Tonk, but the fact of it was he had no idea. [x]
Not sure there's much to conclude, other than that I like to jump straight into things -- I'll always tell you who in the first two sentences, almost always where, and most likely what. A lot of these just state what the entire story is about. PS: You know, I didn't realize that This Means War mentions two wars -- the impersonal and the personal. I totallythought I named this fic after that terrible Tom Hardy/Chris Pine movie meant to do that, I swear.
TRIPPING BALLS!!11! I feel bad that Andy Warhol never got to see Twitter, and that Borges never got to see a Mandelbox. Well, he wouldn't have been able to see it anyway, c r y i n g
Via
dira, the first lines of my last 1) The builders had started on the third floor and moved up, like an infestation of termites. [x]
2) The Winter Soldier has a problem. [x]
3) Steve hears “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” while getting takeaway from one of the glass-fronted coffee shops (not diners; not delis; not bars) dotted all over Midtown. [x]
4) At first Richard spoke nothing of the language, but he picked up the essentials quickly, with minimal effort. [x]
5) “Buy me a beer,” someone says. [x]
6) La Rochelle was War, which was a whole other game from International Espionage. [x]
7) She was walking home from Boxhagener Platz, in the snow, when her phone rang. [x]
8) How," John said, once Rory had glared daggers at Sherlock and taken off after his fuming spouse, "did you know about the child psychologist?" [x]
9) I have a sucky memory for names. [x]
10) Ban said he didn't believe he and Ginji could've run up a 3,000,000-yen tab at the Honky Tonk, but the fact of it was he had no idea. [x]
Not sure there's much to conclude, other than that I like to jump straight into things -- I'll always tell you who in the first two sentences, almost always where, and most likely what. A lot of these just state what the entire story is about. PS: You know, I didn't realize that This Means War mentions two wars -- the impersonal and the personal. I totally
