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…because, you see, Miss Macomber had a procedure. And thus, Francis—after a short, happy “life”—was no more.
Feh. Guess you had to be there.
Hemingway, it seems, would not have made a good Supreme Court justice nominee.
Had he even been nominated.
Hypothetically speaking.
I got it, Jeff.
It’s just sometimes your posts are like being in a really dark room and someone takes a flash picture. Even after the actual light dies down it just takes a while before you feel like you can walk around in the dark again. Or something.
Note to self: learn how to write metaphors.
I like that metaphor, Scott. I’m just not sure how to take it.
It’s all good, friend. It’s just fun trying to keep up with you.
I usually take my metaphors straight-up, with a twist of lime.
Does that make me gay?
Yes. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Damn, Jeff. I had to go read the short story (public school education) and I still wasn’t sure. But, wouldn’t that be showing a pro-choice bent?
I just read it, too. It’s here if anyone else wants to check it out.
That’s it then, no more metaphors for me. With or without lime.
I can quit anytime I want.
I’m sticking with allegory, with a hyperbole chaser.
Damn manly, if you ask me.
But, wouldn’t that be showing a pro-choice bent?
That confused me, too. Jeff?
The title, which describes as “short” and “happy” what you come to find, after the reading the body text, is an aborted life, is supposed to trigger your irony receptors. If it didn’t, then I failed.
No, you succeeded. Especially as Macomber was quite the hangar-on.
. . .unless the “procedure” was a partial-mirth absorption.
Jeff: It did. You didn’t. Nicely done.
Irony, with a splash of grenadine, over ice.
Tasty, AND testosterone-laden.
(BTW, it worked for me Jeff)
ah . I’m so embarrassed I had to have that explained to me. In my defense, I am currently on drugs.
After Hemingway committed suicide, a friend eulogized him, mentioning the famous writer was very ‘open-minded’.
(seems appropriate here…)
Too may commas, kid.
A Clean, Well Lighted Place –
Visit Your Local Abortion Clinic!
and, fwiw, “The Three-Day Blow” is *really* misleading
Too may commas, kid.
Trying to use them up. I got a case of them when Jayson Blair cleaned out his desk.