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the woman in the green hat nasrin khosrowshahi 2013 1 1. The woman in the green hat was not a gifted writer. Make that, IS not a gifted writer. She is never quite sure which tense to use, her grammar is always slightly off. Always. Grammar-off- ness as sty listic element. They don’t teach that at the Gotham Writers Workshop, now do they? She puts on her glasses, she never took a writer ’s class, gotham or otherwise. She just writes down whatever those voices tell her to put down. It is way too hot here, Ya letown has its usual boredom meets non-boredomness ab out it, she jumps on the Canada Line to make her way home. Writing, huh. She ponders, is this what she has sunk down to, scribbling useless prose about u seless lives? Hers is inconsequential mumbo- jumbo, with tints of negativity, but without the sweeping brush of a Frans Kafka, without the sweeping brush of any middle-of-the-road semi-genius. She just types away in a dark room, hunched over, while she watches her life pass her slowly by. Writing, huh. not her forte, not anyone’s forte. She notices that her interface has an icon that makes you chose whether you want to use APA Sixth Edition or Chicago Fifteenth Edition, she ponders, last time she did this typinish writingish biz, there was no Style button. An yhoo, keep on stringing yer yarn, she ponders, somehow jumping from being on the Canada Line to sitting in front of your laptop, seems slightly inconceivable, more like utterly inconceivable. She feels like barfing, it is way too hot to peddle your words against this machine. 2. Where lies the line ‘tween fiction and non-fiction? Who knows? Maybe, paid categorizers in ivy towers have the answer, to her here, writing is writing. grocery lists are fiction, poems are non- fiction. Yep, as good a definition as any. What are T-shirt inscriptions then, text-messages,
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the woman in the green hat nasrin khosrowshahi 2013
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1.
The woman in the green hat was not a gifted writer. Make that, IS not a gifted writer. She is
never quite sure which tense to use, her grammar is always slightly off. Always. Grammar-off-
ness as stylistic element. They don’t teach that at the Gotham Writers Workshop, now do they?
She puts on her glasses, she never took a writer ’s class, gotham or otherwise. She just writes
down whatever those voices tell her to put down.
It is way too hot here, Yaletown has its usual boredom meets non-boredomness about it, she
jumps on the Canada Line to make her way home. Writing, huh. She ponders, is this what she
has sunk down to, scribbling useless prose about useless lives? Hers is inconsequential mumbo-
jumbo, with tints of negativity, but without the sweeping brush of a Frans Kafka, without the
sweeping brush of any middle-of-the-road semi-genius. She just types away in a dark room,
hunched over, while she watches her life pass her slowly by. Writing, huh. not her forte, not
anyone’s forte. She notices that her interface has an icon that makes you chose whether you want
to use APA Sixth Edition or Chicago Fifteenth Edition, she ponders, last time she did this
typinish writingish biz, there was no Style button. Anyhoo, keep on stringing yer yarn, she
ponders, somehow jumping from being on the Canada Line to sitting in front of your laptop,
seems slightly inconceivable, more like utterly inconceivable. She feels like barfing, it is way too
hot to peddle your words against this machine.
2.
Where lies the line ‘tween fiction and non-fiction? Who knows? Maybe, paid categorizers in ivy
towers have the answer, to her here, writing is writing. grocery lists are fiction, poems are non-
fiction. Yep, as good a definition as any. What are T-shirt inscriptions then, text-messages,
the woman in the green hat nasrin khosrowshahi 2013
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tweets? Are street-names literature? Yup, maybe, writing really is not her forte. It is so very hot,
these days she watches a lot of SUPERSIZE vs. SUPERSKINNY, on You Tube, SECRET
EATERS, she has now advanced to German diet documentaries, next she will tackle Danish
ones. If you watch enough diet shows, you will become a Size Zero. By default. And it is still
way too hot, August should be even hotter.
3.
On the telly, KING OF QUEENS. Kind of tough to write while laugh tracks wash over yer.
Maybe, writing has to be done in a coffee house, in a beret, in Paris. An ad for a Vanilla Milk
Shake will not drive the wording forward, that is not how poets role. Apparently. The muse, ah,
the muse. She ponders, what x-aktli is a muse?
