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Offline Brown Eyes

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Re: The ORIGINAL 1000+ Posts Club
« Reply #10330 on: October 20, 2009, 03:34:21 pm »
Quote from: serious crayons on October 20, 2009, 02:31:35 pm
Wait 'til we start talking about how, on our way to work, the sidewalk boiled with demonic energy.



:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Good one K!

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Re: The ORIGINAL 1000+ Posts Club
« Reply #10331 on: October 20, 2009, 05:01:20 pm »
hm...... I consider myself a brokie, but I don't get that bone speak.....  ???
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Re: The ORIGINAL 1000+ Posts Club
« Reply #10332 on: October 20, 2009, 09:38:40 pm »
Quote from: Sason on October 20, 2009, 05:01:20 pm
hm...... I consider myself a brokie, but I don't get that bone speak.....  ???

Heya,

"Boneless blue" is a phrase from the story.  "Ennis, weather-eyed, looked west for the heated cumulus that might come up on such a day but the boneless blue was so deep, said Jack, that he might drown looking up."

The "boiled with demonic energy" phrase is also from the story.

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Re: The ORIGINAL 1000+ Posts Club
« Reply #10333 on: October 21, 2009, 02:44:38 pm »
Ooops...... guess I should study the story more carefully.... shame on me!  ;)



Thanks atz!!
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Re: The ORIGINAL 1000+ Posts Club
« Reply #10334 on: October 21, 2009, 05:03:27 pm »
Quote from: Sason on October 21, 2009, 02:44:38 pm
Ooops...... guess I should study the story more carefully.... shame on me!  ;)



Thanks atz!!

LOL, no problem!

It's funny how far one can go with the bones-as-clouds metaphor.... which is what was happening a little ways back here in this thread.  Bones can easily become a Brokie in-joke or code word when it comes to describing the weather.


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Re: The ORIGINAL 1000+ Posts Club
« Reply #10335 on: October 22, 2009, 05:43:18 am »
Bones and clouds are so dissimilar.

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Re: The ORIGINAL 1000+ Posts Club
« Reply #10336 on: October 22, 2009, 06:17:19 am »
Quote from: atz75 on October 20, 2009, 09:38:40 pm
 "Ennis, weather-eyed, looked west for the heated cumulus that might come up on such a day but the boneless blue was so deep, said Jack, that he might drown looking up."

I´m feeling some Annie-love right now
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« Reply #10337 on: October 22, 2009, 01:26:36 pm »
Quote from: Buffymon on October 22, 2009, 06:17:19 am
I´m feeling some Annie-love right now

:)  Yeah, when I was flipping through the story the other day to find the quotation I had this same feeling.  It's been a long enough time since I've read the story... certain things were seeming fresh again.  Her descriptions... particularly of nature, are so strong and poetic.

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Re: The ORIGINAL 1000+ Posts Club
« Reply #10338 on: October 22, 2009, 10:33:27 pm »
Just needed to say that I love this week´s banner :D
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Offline serious crayons

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Re: The ORIGINAL 1000+ Posts Club
« Reply #10339 on: October 22, 2009, 10:43:58 pm »
Quote from: Ellemeno on October 22, 2009, 05:43:18 am
Bones and clouds are so dissimilar.

She's brave about incorporating way-out-there images and metaphors. Since when does a mountain boil, with demonic energy no less?

Whenever I've tried something the least bit offbeat like that, my editors have sternly deleted it and switched it to something ordinary and predictable: "boneless" to "cloudless" or whatever. Annie either makes it work ... or is so brazen that the editors figure she must know what she's doing.

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