VLVL Prairie and DL

pynchonoid pynchonoid at yahoo.com
Sun Oct 19 16:33:44 CDT 2003


Pardon the interruption, but it's difficult to dance
"soft-shoe" with taps on your feet, no matter how
unequivocal the assertion might be...

jbor:
> 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.

Mr Natural sez, Always use the right tool for the job.




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