E.CaimanSands wrote:austinDm wrote:wotf018 Not I...
...said everyone
Lol, agreed.
Oops, even Gator is hiding under the couch.
It's ok Gator dear, it's only a photo.
Has it gone yet?![]()
Yes, we're on the next page.

E.CaimanSands wrote:austinDm wrote:wotf018 Not I...
...said everyone
Lol, agreed.
Oops, even Gator is hiding under the couch.
It's ok Gator dear, it's only a photo.
Has it gone yet?![]()
Kary English wrote:Um, eeeek!
Did someone say SPAM?
liz wrote:
To the Gator: You could totally take this beast.
liz wrote:Kary English wrote:Um, eeeek!
Did someone say SPAM?
I'm baa-aack.
Sorry, couldn't resist![]()
To the Gator: You could totally take this beast.
lsjohnson wrote:i know this thread is quiet now, but . . .
in peter greenaway's the pillow book, one of the calligraphers says:
"the word for smoke should look like smoke; the word for rain should look like rain."
he is talking about chinese characters, but i always think of it in relation to writing. the plot is the drawing; the prose is the coloring, the nuance, the shading. how you write it, for me (and i know i am in the uberminority here), is as important as what you write. i can read a well-written book with an ehh plot and finish it, but i can't read a poorly written book, because then i can't see the plot for the bad mechanics obscuring it. a reminder of the necessity of good editors, yet fewer and fewer publishers are willing to pay for them.
the pace of the language can do as much to build suspense as the words themselves; a sonorous, or a jangling, description shapes my apprehension of a location as much as the actual adjectives being used. you can use a formal style to underscore, say, a repressive regime and its effects on people; you can use a poetic meter to carry readers through a particularly painful scene and leave them with a sense of perseverance, even hope, without actually saying it.
the last readings which i found interesting for style were catherynne valente's silently and very fast and the hilary mantel duo, wolf hall and bring up the bodies. the valente is gorgeous and sweeping and takes the time to balance character, image, and plot all through the prose. i'm overdue to revisit it, but it felt at once poetic and muscular . . . and it told a story in upwards of, oh, 15,000 words? that other folks would have told in 5,000. and thank goodness she does. on the other end of the spectrum, the mantels funnel an enormous amount of english history into a compressed voice that just barely keeps her vast chessboard in play. it's a tremendous balancing act, and it falters in a few spots, but it goes like stink . . . and considering how far we are from the tudor era, it's got something to offer for sheer worldbuilding, even if you're not into the so-called "litfic"-ness of it.
LDWriter2 wrote:liz wrote:Kary English wrote:Um, eeeek!
Did someone say SPAM?
I'm baa-aack.
Sorry, couldn't resist![]()
To the Gator: You could totally take this beast.
I think the one they captured that weighed a ton or was two, is even bigger. Out of the water it looked fat.
LDWriter2 wrote:Okay two links here one to a series of pics of the gator and one to an article about the capture.
Some are of other large gators so pick out the ones with the largest one.
Google pics
National Geographic article
story listing
LDWriter2 wrote:Some like the big fat one are going to a park, not a zoo...if I recall correctly from the article.
But I saw an article about an alligator they picked up in Detroit for vagrancy. It was just hanging around an empty field.
Are you sure Gator is around????
Or did she hop a boat over here?
If she shows up on my doorstep I'll slap her on the nose(With an iron bar)...how she would know my address though I'll never tell.
E.CaimanSands wrote:
Pleased to hear those gators are going to a good home. I suppose that's the problem if you are over-large and over-friendly, you turn into a "nuisance alligator."![]()
Gator isn't very large, and she's still here, sniffing around the Christmas tree, trying to find that fishy smell... There really is a strange smell in the vicinity of the tree, too. Not sure what it is... Mouldy dog biscuit maybe.
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