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Jeff Wrangler:
Why is Paul McCartney in two successive issues? ???
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on October 20, 2021, 10:09:17 am ---Reading how "Eleanor Rigby" came about by Paul McCartney, I noticed the use of the word "got". It seems to lend a populist air to the narrative. Strange.
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You mean the whole word or that conjugation of it? I vaguely remember in childhood reading a kids' book that said "got is not a word." I may be misremembering, but as far as I'm concerned it's a word.
What I think is strange is that they never say "gotten." So a sentence might read, "By 2021, he was running out of money. He had got fired the year before, and hadn't worked since then." Whereas I would say "gotten" in that sentence.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on October 21, 2021, 11:18:13 pm ---Why is Paul McCartney in two successive issues? ???
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Despite my questioning, I really enjoyed David Remnick's article on McCartney in the Oct. 18 issue. Who'da ever thunk it that Paul McCartney is 79 years old? :-\ I guess he will probably go down in music history as one of the truly great song writers.
I also recommend Rachel Aviv's "Lost Youth" in that issue.
Front-Ranger:
After reading this, I dug around in my piles of magazines and realized that I stopped reading that issue at the Christian zealot article. Thanks to you, I've taken it up again.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on October 26, 2021, 08:19:42 pm ---After reading this, I dug around in my piles of magazines and realized that I stopped reading that issue at the Christian zealot article. Thanks to you, I've taken it up again.
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I remember hearing that name, Teen Challenge, when I was, well, a teen, but I didn't know anything about it beyond that it was some sort of religious organization for teens. I really knew nothing about it till I read Aviv's article.
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