‘The pen is jealous of company. It expects, as I may say, to engross the writer’s whole self.’
Minggu Tambaalıntı yaptı9 yıl önce
When someone talks and you go ‘Hmmm, mmmm’, you’re being phatic – displaying a sort of primal animal sympathy; saying, in effect, ‘Keep going, I’m still here’, even though mentally you may be a hundred miles away.
Evgenyalıntı yaptı8 yıl önce
The Joy of Nothing
Evgenyalıntı yaptı8 yıl önce
wouldn’t it be brilliant if we all wrote really rich, detailed letters to each other, which we kept as physical artefacts to pass on to future generations?
Evgenyalıntı yaptı8 yıl önce
The pen is jealous of company. It expects, as I may say, to engross the writer’s whole self.’
mflynn19alıntı yaptı9 yıl önce
Cost: £14.50 for 50 sheets of 10” x 8”. The starburst in my chest felt like love.
mflynn19alıntı yaptı9 yıl önce
What are you doing? Send a sodding email. I haven’t got all night.
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The pen is jealous of company. It expects, as I may say, to engross the writer’s whole self
Minggu Tambaalıntı yaptı9 yıl önce
word ‘phatic’? It’s the word linguistics experts use to describe speech which establishes a mood of