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9 Responses to "FPP#20: The Gun Jammed"
DeniseB
May 11, 2009 at 03:52 PM
I totally cheated, could you tell? :)
Dave
May 11, 2009 at 10:28 AM
Oh, we can reveal the source: As you seem to have determined, it's from Clancy Martin's novel
How to Sell
. Jonathan Franzen says it's "dirty, greatly original, and very hard to stop reading."
DeniseB
May 11, 2009 at 08:57 AM
You DIDN'T write it!! I know who did though....I guess I am not supposed to tell...
DeniseB
May 8, 2009 at 11:55 AM
You wrote that, didn't you? Jewelry? I took you more for a "shoe" man.
Dave
May 8, 2009 at 11:25 AM
Goofing off? Never! (Excuse me for just a second while I search for nearby happy hours with the Mercury's new "Cocktail Compass" iPhone app.... Okay, done.) Here's a first paragraph from a book coming out this month: Our father told it that Jim was caught dressing up in my grandmother's black Mikimotos when he was scarcely two years old, but the first time I considered jewelry was the morning I stole my mother's wedding ring. It was white gold. A hundred-year-old Art Nouveau band with eleven diamonds in two rows across the finger, garnets that were sold as rubies in the centers of tiny roses on both sides, and hand-engraved scrollwork on the underside where it held the skin. It was the only precious thing she had left. It was never from her hand. But there it was on the sill of the window, above the kitchen sink, next to a yellow and green plant she kept.
DeniseB
May 8, 2009 at 08:15 AM
Hey Dave - While you are busy goofing off at work (a notion I would never even entertain), you should start this blog up again...very interesting!
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