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"Your story sucked, by the way. The one you read in Chicago." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
"Thank you." ------------------------------------------------------ |
"No, I mean it. It was peinlich and literary and only had a couple of real-sounding lines at the end." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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"I said thank you. Where's my gun?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
"My dear Rob, could this indeed be the famous 'tornado weather' of which you spoke?" ---------------------------------------------------------- |
"You can write better than that." ----------------------------------------------------------- |
"Thank you. Bang." ------------------------------------------------------ |
"Yeah, could be tornado weather. Only if it starts raining, though." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
"How many people in this car write, in part, to fulfill a parent's unfulfilled art dreams?" ---------------------------- two - hands - up - immediately - go -------------- |
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"Uh-oh." ------------------------------------------------------ a - third - hand - halfway - up - sneaks -------------- |
ploopity ------------------------------- |
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"I count 2 and 1/2 hands." ------------------------------------------------------------- |
spleep ------------------------------------- |
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"Torna-DO! Torna-DO! Come, on! Torna-DO! Clap your hands now, Torna-DO! Torna-DO! Everybody! Torna-DO! Torna-DO!" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tina - with - tape - recorder - from - the - back - seat - cheer - leads |
--------------------------- storms - Tina - loves ------------------------------------------ |
"How many in this car hate what they usually hear at poetry readings?" --------------------------------- enthusiastically - four - hands - up - rush --------------- |
------------------------------------------ pittering ---------------------- pattering ------------------------------ pounding - a - son - of - a - bitch - like --------------------------------------- Dierk - his - fountain - pen - as - his - sword - wields ----- |
"Have at you, peinlich poetry reading demons!" ------------------------------------------------- lightning ------------------------------- kaboom ---------------------------------------------------- |
"What? Will I actually be fortunate enough to die in an American tornado? Can life hold such glory? Cool-0-sweet! ------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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"How many in this car write as well as they talk?" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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