Boxing is referred to as the "sweet science."
I want to write a story about a glass-eyed man.
Henry Ford purchased the chair that Abe Lincoln was killed in.
There hasn't been a new Friday Physique this week.
Gertrude Stein: "A sentence is made by coupling meanwhile ride around to be a couple there makes grateful dubeity named atlas coin in a loan." (From How to Write) What does that mean? I guess that the sentence is the currency of writing, and also its atlas (map of the world) and Atlas (holding the writing up and in one piece). Prose is built out of sentences and each one should carry the whole thing. I think that needs to be what I focus on in "Orange Ballerina Socks." What's each sentence doing for the overall piece? And the sentence is made up of coupled meanwhiles - simultaneous events or ideas that you need to hold together in your head to create meaning. Does that mean that every sentence is a paradox? Probably not, but it's an interesting idea and I'm completely off-base pulling it out of there, no?
Don't know what "dubeity" is, actually. Hold on. It looks like she sidewayspelled "dubiety," which means doubt. "Grateful" doubt? Aha, we're getting somewhere. A sentence is made by joining (note "coupling" - reminds me of the semicolon as sex metaphor) conflicting, simultaneous events or ideas that create some kind of happy doubt (or perhaps any emotional response) which furthers the goal of the entire piece. Yes? Every fragment is important.
How does one present "pillow talk" tone in a narrative voice?