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12 Responses to "FPP#1: Smelled Coming Flurries and Saw Meat"
Silver
March 6, 2006 at 04:31 AM
It's an ok paragraph though I hope that whoever is reading it isn't eating. For a first para graph it establishes a where but not really a who. And I have to say along with Laurie and Trisha, a "halt haggard house"? I can understand haggard, but I think halt was a little much.
Laurie
February 22, 2006 at 05:11 AM
I lost interest after the second sentence. It was too bulky and hard to read. If I have to keep going back and re-reading the sentences to figure out what the writer is trying to say, I don't want anything to do with it. And like Trisha - what is a "Halt Haggard House"?
K. Roberts
February 21, 2006 at 08:43 AM
Some of you scholars need to open a dictionary. Halt--as in crippled, and haggard, as in shopworn, tired, gaunt. Pretty simple, really.
Trisha
February 20, 2006 at 07:28 PM
The "snick-cluck" of the shotgun in Faulkner's "Race at Morning" in no way compares to "halt haggard houses," Southern "wanna-be" writer or not. What the heck is a halt haggard house?
hayley
February 12, 2006 at 05:19 PM
I like halt haggard houses.
Stonetree
February 3, 2006 at 09:09 AM
Wow, yeah, I wouldn't have lasted the whole paragraph if I didn't feel an obligation to the blog. A Masters in English lit is rarely helpful for writers in these situations.
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