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Letter "S" » swoon
«The received image of a writer is that of an unproductive sensitive who suffers from the vapors, is enslaved by his gonads, falls victim to romantic swoons and passes out at deadlines.»
Author: George V. Higgins
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Writer)
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About:
Writers
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Keywords:
deadlines,
enslaved,
passes out,
swoon,
swooned,
swooning,
swoons,
The Vapors,
unproductive,
vapor,
vapors
«Quick note here: if this crush-slash-swooning stuff is hard for you to stomach, if you?ve never had a similar experience, then you should come to grips with the fact that you?ve got a TV dinner for a heart and might want to consider climbing inside a microwave and turning it on high for at least an hour, which if you do consider only goes to show what kind of idiot you truly are because microwaves are way too small for anyone, let alone you, to climb into.»
Author: Mark Danielewski
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About:
Humor,
Love
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Keywords:
climbing,
come to grips,
crush,
grips,
let alone,
microwave,
similar,
slash,
slashed,
slashes,
small stuff,
swoon,
swooned,
swooning,
swoons,
TV dinner,
TV show,
TV shows
«They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.»
«Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.»
«But when the wearied Band / Swoons to a waltz, I take her hand, / And there we sit in peaceful calm, / Quietly sweating palm to palm.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
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Critic,
Novelist)
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Keywords:
band,
palm,
sweating,
swoon,
swooned,
swooning,
swoons,
waltz,
waltzes,
waltzing,
wearied
«Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.»