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Re: The New and Improved Joey? thread
Reply #7728 - Jul 25th, 2012 at 3:53pm
JOEY , I WAS READING CARO'S BOOK ON THE SHITTER AND IT WAS SO BORING I PASSED OUT.HIT MY HEAD ON THE SINK. NOW USING IT FOR A DOORSTOP. Caro’s prose, likewise, is marked by extremes. At his best, his long, winding sentences, many of them dotted with trademark repetitions of words and quotes and phrases, sweep the reader in a linguistic cascade, creating an immersive experience. Consider his description of the conservative Virginia senator Harry Byrd, whom Johnson wheedled into accepting his budget bill: “Short and slight, seventy-six-year-old Harry Flood Byrd walked softly (in recent years, as he grew older, in scuffed crepe-soled shoes and often with cane), with a pigeon-toed, mincing gait, and talked softly, in a voice so whispery that his speeches could barely be heard in the high-ceilinged Senate Chamber in which he had sat for three decades.”
B-O-R-E !
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