A meme for the pesky pea
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barbarienne atfrigg's persistent insistence:The rules:
1. Go to page 77 (or 7th) of your current ms
2. Go to line 7
3. Copy down the next 7 lines – sentences or paragraphs – and post them as they’re written. No cheating.
Pg 77 of The Bitter River, in all its roughness:
After the boys were particularly rowdy in class, the Persian tutor made them write a report of why they had been acting up and how they might comport themselves differently in the future given the same set of circumstances. My father wrote a strictly accurate account of the morning, but Ahmed’s copy, like his speech, was peppered with falsehoods. Five times the tutor made him rewrite the account, threatening him with a lashing for each fib, but Ahmed could not relate only the facts.
In a fit of rage, he wrote in French, to the same effect. More lies, more lashes. However, when my father jokingly said that the Persian tutor’s English was poor and he would surely not be able to catch any errors in Ahmed’s telling, a curious thing happened. Ahmed was able to tell the truth. He burst into tears, and it took my father all of a day to understand that he was happy and not upset.
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Date: 7 Jun 2012 09:59 pm (UTC)I call it the friendly cure to procrastination. ;)
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Date: 8 Jun 2012 12:50 pm (UTC)(oh, hi again; I went off on a wander through my old posts about this story. :P)
Here is an entry that gives you some detail, probably more than you wanted to know! http://mnfaure.livejournal.com/144781.html
Apart from the Middle Eastern bulk of the story, I will also have passages from the Northeast in the States and some from ships logs in the Aegean Sea...
The things I need to know...makes my head hurt. I didn't even want to post this because I know the voice and vocabulary choices are not right yet for the time period. :-
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Date: 8 Jun 2012 01:14 pm (UTC)(P.S. I haven't forgotten my promise, either... )
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Date: 8 Jun 2012 06:53 pm (UTC)Never fear. I am patient.
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Date: 8 Jun 2012 03:23 pm (UTC)Whoa--you have set yourself a complicate project, but man, it will be **excellent** when you're done.
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