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The Velvet Underground - There She Goes
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Awhile and a While →
“Awhile” is an adverb. It modifies a verb and means “for a short time”: He chatted awhile and then left. “Awhile” should not be used as the object of a preposition, so constructions like “for awhile” or “in awhile” are wrong.
But here’s the tricky part: “while” is a noun meaning “a period of time,” and can be used with a preposition, preceded of course by the article “a”: He chatted for a while...
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Miranda July: 'Take a moment to connect with a... →
‘Grab hold of the nearest stranger. Don’t take the stranger’s hand, God knows where that’s been, but grasp their arm, firmly. Don’t let go until I tell you to.
Your best friend might meet this stranger at a rock show and they might sit in a parked car talking for hours and when they break up, 10 years later, the stranger, the one whose arm you’re holding right...
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“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding...”
– Sandi Toksvig (via iamilliterate)
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The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami →
By SAM ANDERSON NY Times Published: October 21, 2011
I prepared for my first-ever trip to Japan, this summer, almost entirely by immersing myself in the work of Haruki Murakami. This turned out to be a horrible idea. Under the influence of Murakami, I arrived in Tokyo expecting Barcelona or Paris or Berlin — a cosmopolitan world capital whose straight-talking citizens were fluent not only in...
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