I think you mean "men in overalls" not "overhauls"
Then again you could have created a McCutcheon word.
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actually Mc, I traded my copy of "A raw youth" for a book on editing prose and I thought, "Mc's putting out a book, maybe I could edit it." so yeah here's the guy with time on his hands to edit your book, So email it to me, and don't be scared off with all the mistakes i write in my postings. I've actually got sum good mo' fo' grammer and shit... just not the patience when I'm posting.
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a skunk as a drunk says hello.
that would be great Jake. we all know aritists, shit heads, drunks, writers, wasters, sometimes called 'people' can't edit thier own work.
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well fellow wasters, I took the day off .
The reason I think I like cashews so much is that arnold is this really innocent character. I mean I know that he's having this weird fantasy about Dorris while wanting to munch on nuts (which is an extremely weird metaphor if you want to see it that way) If you don't, cashews are sweet and salty just like sex, and I don't know. It's a harmless little story about a dude.
I think what's nice about arnold is that he's just a real primitive, basic guy. Having some real primitive basic guy feelings. And I like it that he pays more attention to the taste of food and to the woman who brings it to him than to football -- that's actually very nice. And I'll tell you what else is nice about arnold; he's polite. He waits to be offered the food.
I also like the name Dorris. She sounds maternal like someone who'd take care of the guys, which she does. I like it all the way around I think.
The reason I think I like cashews so much is that arnold is this really innocent character. I mean I know that he's having this weird fantasy about Dorris while wanting to munch on nuts (which is an extremely weird metaphor if you want to see it that way) If you don't, cashews are sweet and salty just like sex, and I don't know. It's a harmless little story about a dude.
I think what's nice about arnold is that he's just a real primitive, basic guy. Having some real primitive basic guy feelings. And I like it that he pays more attention to the taste of food and to the woman who brings it to him than to football -- that's actually very nice. And I'll tell you what else is nice about arnold; he's polite. He waits to be offered the food.
I also like the name Dorris. She sounds maternal like someone who'd take care of the guys, which she does. I like it all the way around I think.
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I'm really having a lot of fun with your writing. I hope you don't mind, and I hope you know that I'm teasing.
With that said it's actually very ironic that the maternal character in the story's name is Dorris.
Doris Lessing is probably one of the most well known feminist writers of the twentieth century. You say Dorris to any literary snob, and they are going to think Lessing.
So it's sort of funny and ironic.
She once said after something like her third marriage.
I've been much happier unmarried than married. No one knows the virtues marriage requires, but I haven't got them.
With that said it's actually very ironic that the maternal character in the story's name is Dorris.
Doris Lessing is probably one of the most well known feminist writers of the twentieth century. You say Dorris to any literary snob, and they are going to think Lessing.
So it's sort of funny and ironic.
She once said after something like her third marriage.
I've been much happier unmarried than married. No one knows the virtues marriage requires, but I haven't got them.
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so what I'm doing right now is I'm looking back at the Razor's Edge to try to figure out what exactly it was about that book that burnt reminded me of and what I think so far is and I'm only on page 28, so we'll see, but what I think is that it's the main character, Larry, and your main character Trevor. This is what is said about Larry when Maughum meets him: "Larry will never amount to very much. He has no money to speak of and no standing."
That's the same impression of Trevor that everyone has.
This is what the writer Somerset Maughum says about Larry:
The man I am writing about is not famous. It may be that he never will be . . . Then my book, if it is read at all will be read only for what intrinsic interest it may possess. But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an overgrowing influence over his fellow men . . .
(that's on page one by the way)
That's the same impression of Trevor that everyone has.
This is what the writer Somerset Maughum says about Larry:
The man I am writing about is not famous. It may be that he never will be . . . Then my book, if it is read at all will be read only for what intrinsic interest it may possess. But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an overgrowing influence over his fellow men . . .
(that's on page one by the way)