Great Expectorations

Great Expectorations is, among other things, the book Dickens wishes he'd written as it would have been much funnier. It is a story about following your dreams even if they go in circles and travelling back to the 50s to life the good life and fight the good fight, before it all went to shit. I can't garauntee success or even an creditable attempt, but I'll try to try. Also find ramblings unconnected and unreasonable. No standards apply to Wilt's writing. I mean NONE. If it blows, it blows.

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Name: Wilt N Flowers
Location: Ireland

Wilt Flowers is my novelist alter-ego. The non-book things I post here are often not true, or distorted so far from true that it doesn't matter anymore, so any similarity to real life is remote. Nobody take this seriously. Or I'll 'ave ya. Spelling mistakes stay in, it's the way God wrote it through me, I'm not about to change that.

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Saturday, May 14, 2005

"Elusive" my left one.

Lesson #2 is another point of language.

Use the right words.

This goes out to my man Ridley Scott, director of Kingdom of Heaven.

"Peace in Jerusalem remains elusive" is the closing caption of the movie. Sorry if I spoiled the ending, but this wasn't going to be Happily Ever After anyway, was it?

Peace in Jerusalem does not remain elusive. You know what's elusive? That thing you forget to do right after you walk into a room that you just had a really good thing to do in but have forgetton. That thought is elusive.

To the case at hand - here is how I would have phrased it:

Peace in Jerusalem remains violent.

You showed a priest being killed in the first fifteen minutes of your movie. The time for tact has been and gone.

Lesson of Justice #2: Tell it like it is.

posted by Otab | 14:25

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