"Don't play like you haven't heard this one before. When you create the conditions of war, you get to name the places it happened."
- Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball And Ascension
"Don't play like you haven't heard this one before. When you create the conditions of war, you get to name the places it happened."
- Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball And Ascension
#BookQW again! Today, the prompt word is "wander".
City dwelling Imogen, alone in the countryside at night, gets the wind up:
#bookquotewednesday (From a not yet published WIP):
"Not a problem to the Prefectorate: marriage is a holy sacrament between one patriarch and however many wives he can grab and hang onto without starting a blood feud β¦"
#BookQW is with us once more, and this time I remembered about it before the last moment. The prompt word is DRY.
Feminist comedian Jemima has recently been dumped by her manager Eddie. Her PA, Imogen, discovers the reason why; Eddie has taken Jemima's drug-abusing ex-husband Chaz on as a client instead.
It's #BookQW time. Well, actually, it's past that time, but I'm pretending it's still Wednesday here. The prompt word this week is "free":
I nearly forgot Book Quote Wednesday! But nearly isn't quite. Today's prompt was "better":
"At that moment the power of reading made itself clear and real to me. If I could see the words, then no one could control them or what I got from them. They couldn't even know if I was merely seeing them or reading them, sounding them out or comprehending them. It was a completely private affair and completely free and, therefore, completely subversive." - James, by Percival Everett
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This week's prompt word was "old":
"Sport is agony. We agree to suffer endlessly in exchange for the mere possibility of sublime rapture. Sometimes, we even get it."
-- Why We Love Baseball: A History In 50 Moments by Joe Posnanski
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"I arrived at the Ministry sweaty and vibeless. It was a dark toothache of a day, barely qualifying in its chromatic dullness for 'gray.'"
- The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley