“ – the dangerous words, the padlocked words, the words that do not belong to the dictionary,
for if they were written there, written out and not maintained by ellipses,
they would utter too fast the suffocating misery of a solitude …”
Jean Genet
Introduction to “Soledad Brother – The Prison Letters of George Jackson”
the girl's unsuctioned velcro sneaker straps were flapping insolently as she walked. the winged feet of a cherub unable to elevate her above the terrestrial
"flapping insolently". That hits home, I have a real aversion to the unstrapped, untied, untongued shoe fad. (If untongued isn't a word, it should be.)
Thanks Li, in a novella of mine I wrote about the spaghetti of deliberately untied laces, the tongue being cut out and socks being cut off above the ankle! They were all expressions of the teenager's emotional state
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"flapping insolently". That hits home, I have a real aversion to the unstrapped, untied, untongued shoe fad. (If untongued isn't a word, it should be.)
Thanks Li, in a novella of mine I wrote about the spaghetti of deliberately untied laces, the tongue being cut out and socks being cut off above the ankle! They were all expressions of the teenager's emotional state
rude flapping straps - conjures up a very strange image in my mind ^_^
Maybe they'd enable flight if she'd strap them correctly.
How can you possibly fit so much into 25 words!?! It's uncanny!
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