Sunday, August 7, 2016

Notes from “The Girls” by Emma Cline


I'd always hated martini glasses—the stem and the funny shape seemed embarrassing, like the adults were trying too hard to be adults.

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Saturday, March 26, 2016

What a strange choice of preposition

"Ish reacted into pity."

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Friday, March 25, 2016

Single-Jack

"It had been used by some miner in the old days when rock-drills were driven home in a low tunnel with a man swinging a hammer in one hand; four pounds was about the weight a man could handle in that way, and it was called a single-jack because it was managed one-handedly."

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