VLVL Prairie and DL
jbor
jbor at bigpond.com
Sat Oct 18 20:18:55 CDT 2003
> on 19/10/03 10:38 AM, jbor wrote:
>
>> while the narrator's statement that "DL had to look down at her feet like an
>> amateur ballet dancer" is rudely rejected as "ambiguous"
>
> s/b "DL had to stare down at her feet, like an amateur tap dancer" (103.29).
And which implies, pretty unequivocally imo, that DL has been trying to
dance the soft-shoe shuffle, but that she wasn't particularly good at it.
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