OK, that last one? I tried to post that yesterday, but it wouldn't work no matter what I did, and I finally gave up.
Now, 24 hours later, there it is. ~~ Twilight Zone music ~~
And I couldn't edit the post to add this message to it, it wouldn't go through, I kept getting some error message.
I dunno.
Anyway, I just thought it was kinda neat. I need to get a moleskin notebook one of these days.
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In “The Grammarian’s Five Daughters,” a fable by science fiction writer Eleanor Arnason, a mother bestows grammatical gifts to five daughters seeking their fortune in the world. The eldest daughter gets a bag full of nouns, the next gets verbs, the next adjectives, and the next adverbs. The youngest daughter is stuck with the leftovers, those “dull little words” overlooked by everyone else: the prepositions. But the prepositions ultimately bring order to a chaotic land, serving as the foundation for a strong and thriving nation organized under the motto “WITH.”
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