A family of student writers, learning to find the right words.
"The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
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Air-shaper Chord-maker Finger-twirler Bellows-worker Ear-shouter Room-crowder Grandma-pleaser Cheer-bringer ~ Tamary Shoemaker ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (From a prompt at NaPoWriMo to write a "kenning" poem, a kind of Norse-inspired riddle.)
"Kenning" reminded me of a typography joke:
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"Keming."
Which in turn reminded me of this: http://xkcd.com/1015/
Ok, I'll stop now.
I like typography jokes too. But then, I'm probably the only one at church who is bothered when the hymn numbers are put up with mixed fonts.
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