Week #9
“What we do in God's name shouldn't make God hard to find.”
taken from Forward Day by Day, Mar. 15, 2011
“This place looks like a screensaver.”
Zak Taylor on arrival at Lindisfarne, Scotland
“I’ve got so much metal in my body that magnets jump off the refrigerator when I walk by.”
Bob Crowe
“We weren’t as good as the Rolling Stones and not as painful as kidney stones.”
Kirk Curcutt’s description of the band he played in.
I enjoyed all of these quotes; they are so acute and unorthodox. “This place looks like a screen saver” is rather catchy and self explanatory, one would instantly know that a place of this caliber would be portrayed as “perfect” or at least close to it. The imagery in the line: “I’ve got so much metal in my body that magnets jump off the refrigerator when I walk by” is impeccable; I envisioned a piece about “The Metal Man” instantly, telling a story about his unfortunate setbacks due to the metal in his body, be it magnets, or even getting through the metal detectors in the airport. There is a lot that you could do with that one line, I wish I’d found it myself. And the last line: “We weren’t as good as the Rolling Stones and not as painful as kidney stones” is hilarious and goes without saying in a passive way; instead of saying “we weren’t that good” he chose to take a more subtle approach.
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