I’d been told that some former Colorado Springs poets laureate were going to read at the old Knights of Columbus hall. Some of them were old friends, so I’d overcome my distaste for public gatherings and come down to hear them. When I’d walked into the hall, I’d found a bank of folding chairs set out, mostly unoccupied, and eight or so big folding tables on each side of the
Praised by such different souls as Ernest Hemingway, Donald Barthelme, Simone de Beauvoir and Kurt Vonnegut, Nelson Algren remains at best a rumor in his own time. They misspelled his name on his tombstone, and when the City of Chicago renamed a street in his honor, the residents complained so bitterly about the change that it was rescinded. If his name rings a bell, it’s usually one forged in Hollywood,
On the landing of a high school stairway one day, I happened to witness the unhappy ending of a friend’s romance with one of our school’s acknowledged beauties. He had been pleading whatever case he thought he had for a while when she issued her verdict, with the haughty finality available to the beautiful young. “Forget you,” she said, and swayed off up the stairway. I imagine she did forget
This video on sentence types discusses the subject-verb relationship and active versus passive construction. It also specifies the four sentence patterns: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. Moreover, the video explains how to format elements of an MLA paper by adjusting settings in the paragraph dialogue box.
After lunch I went up to my room, read a while, and went to sleep. When I woke it was half past four. I found my swimming-suit, wrapped it with a comb in a towel, and went down-stairs and walked up the street to the Concha. The tide was about half-way out. The beach was smooth and firm, and the sand yellow. I went into a bathing-cabin, undressed, put on
