Word: penciled
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...books, in first grade, provided a pleasant initiation into idiomatic English. Who knew, for example, that “drawing the curtains” didn’t involve a pencil and a sketchbook? Or that dressing the turkey—unlike dressing the dog—didn’t call for a sweater and a pair of argyle socks? Read in college, on the other hand, Amelia Bedelia looks less like an amusing language lesson than a perfect modern parable for the restrictive role that language plays in socioeconomic class mobility, particularly among immigrant populations...
...Australia's pre-eminent men of letters, Rodney Hall travels lightly. Look into his black shoulder bag and you'll simply find a 3B pencil fixed to an octavo notebook with an elastic band. These days it's all the writer needs for his mobile office, as his best tool is a superbly exercised imagination. Ever since the then aspiring young poet left Brisbane for a 10,000-km walking trek around the Mediterranean almost 50 years ago, Hall has worked best off the leash. Much of his creatively vast colonial trilogy, which began with 1988's Captivity Captive...
...your pleasures and peeves--are conscious. You can ponder them, discuss them and let them guide your behavior. Other kinds, like the control of your heart rate, the rules that order the words as you speak and the sequence of muscle contractions that allow you to hold a pencil, are unconscious. They must be in the brain somewhere because you couldn't walk and talk and see without them, but they are sealed off from your planning and reasoning circuits, and you can't say a thing about them...
...meeting held “early in 1909,” each member of the Corporation was asked to mention “a name he had heard advocated, or which he cared to mention.” That request elicited 24 names, which Greene wrote down in pencil on three small sheets on paper. Greene included these papers—which he called “memorandum”—in his letter to the library...
...most entertaining work of philosophy--piled on plot curlicues like the toppings on an oversize novelty sundae. Maddening as its mystery could be (O.K., so the smoke monster was set up by the Others who live by the four-toed statue and--hang on, let me grab a pencil ...), great writing, tantalizing details and ever richer characters made it a yarn worth getting more deeply entangled...