Sitting beneath shady oak-tree comfort, she eliminates vocabulary she no longer has use for. The razor-sharp blade excises words, and she lets the breeze carry them away like literary confetti. She has outlived the need for so many nouns, pronouns, verbs, and adjectives. Prepositions with which she must never end a sentence. And conjunctions. Cautiously: adverbs. Oh! Those interjections. It is time to simplify her life. Has she ever needed undulatory? Gone. Another tiny gap in her Penguin. Or sendal? Farewell, medieval thin silk fabric. Millions of 8-point words on 818 tissue-paper pages to rule on. It is marvellously satisfying.
Pamela Kennedy
27/1/2023 09:23:51 am
"literary confetti"...great expression...cute story, Shelley.
Sue Clayton
28/1/2023 03:38:22 am
A wordy war well won. A victory over vocabulary. Comments are closed.
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