Word: kept
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...looking back on that lazy afternoon, I remember that she put me at ease and kept things interesting. There weren't too many of those awkward silences. You know, I think I'll ask out Jeanette Winterson again...
Emer Martin (EM): When I was growing up my mother always told a story. She came from a small town in Ireland...and there were people that lived opposite that had a mad daughter, and they always kept her locked upstairs to they only ever saw this face in the window. Rumor had it if you went to the family and were in their living room, that she would appear at the top of the stairs and shout "More bread or I'll appear," and they'd run up and feed her rather than have her come down and embarrass...
...English and Studio art--painting and sculpture. In my painting and sculpture, I would always do themes from the book as well, you know, so I'd get completely obsessed. Obsessed! There's that word again. Maybe writing is an obsession. [Laughs]...I kept taking classes that would help me with the book. So when I had them down in Mexico I signed up for Spanish 101 so I could put in a few Spanish phrases, which I did, for the four Spanish sentences. I wanted Fatima to be African because I wanted to include a lot of the continents...
After that I sort of just wrote every night. I kept notebooks and I'd write a poem every night and draw a picture at the end from when I was nine. For years and years and years. And it was lot of bad poetry when I was a teenager, of course. Thank God my mother threw it all away she's very neat person. When I left Ireland I was 17--I led a sort of wild existence--I traveled to all these different places. I always say I've cleaned bathrooms in every European capital in the world...
...freshman Corrence Bredin (8, 24), the second-highest scoring rookie defenseman in the country behind Ruggiero, Dartmouth kept the puck away from Harvard's fast-skating forwards and never let the Crimson clear the defensive zone and attack the Big Green net. After Harvard out-shot Dartmouth 14-4 in the first period, the Big Green held the Crimson to 16 shots for the rest of the game and managed 13 shots...