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"It was the day my Grandmother exploded...." Iain Banks. "The Crow Road."
I'm hooked! I'm going to read this next.“My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
I grew up slowly beside the tides and marshes of Colleton; my arms were tawny and strong from working long days on the shrimp boat in the blazing South Carolina heat. Because I was a Wingo, I worked as soon as I could walk; I could pick a blue crab clean when I was five. I had killed my first deer by the age of seven, and at nine was regularly putting meat on my family’s table. I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders. As a boy I was happy above the channels, navigating a small boat between the sandbars with their quiet nation of oysters exposed on the brown flats at the low watermark. I knew every shrimper by name, and they knew me and sounded their horns when they passed me fishing in the river.”
Pat Conroy, “The Prince of Tides.”
My favorite book ever. I’ve read it probably 40 times.
I'm hooked! I'm going to read this next.
That I remember well."Somebody must have made a false accusation against Joseph K., for he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong."
It is a little interesting given what transpires:alice in wonderland …. but i do not know the beginning exactlY
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?”
thank you for the quotation!It is a little interesting given what transpires:
what form of language is this?The sweat wis lashin oafay Sick Boy; he wis tremblin. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh.
should this imitate edinburgh language?what form of language is this?
Yes. The novel's set in Leith a port town to the north, absorbed by Edinburgh.should this imitate edinburgh language?
very interesting!!Mostly known as Lallans, (lowlands) this is Scots, a cousin to English, with West Germanic roots. It shares many words with English, but has many others unique to itself. The constructions differ too. Most kids in my day grew up speaking it at home and play, but then schools tried to eradicate it from our speech, much like Gaelic, as a crass and low dialect! We grew up bilingual!
Lallans - Wikipedia
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Scots leid - Wikipedia
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