Writing for HS, AM (Scalice, '07)
Two notes from Winnie the Pooh on Essay Writing
2007/06/30 09:35:02 PDT by jscalice
Edited by bhuynh at 2007/07/02 15:38:29 PDT

First, the classic experience of having someone else read your essay:

Quote:

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it. (A.A. Milne).

Second, the best use of a run-on sentence in English literature. I shall supply the paragraph:

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You can imagine Piglet's joy when at last the ship came in sight of him. In after-years he liked to think that he had been in Very Great Danger during the Terrible Flood, but the only danger he had really been in was the last half-hour of his imprisonment, when Owl, who had just flown up, sat on a branch of his tree to comfort him, and told him a very long story about an aunt who had once laid a seagull's egg by mistake, and the story went on and on, rather like this sentence, until Piglet who was listening out of his window without much hope, went to sleep quietly and naturally, slipping slowly out of the window towards the water until he was only hanging on by his toes, at which moment, luckily, a sudden loud squawk from Owl, which was really part of the story, being what his aunt said, woke the Piglet up and just gave him time to jerk himself back into safety and say, "How
interesting, and did she?" when--well, you can imagine his joy when at last he saw the good ship, Brain of Pooh (Captain, C. Robin; Ist Mate,
P. Bear) coming over the sea to rescue him.

And as that is really the end of the story, and I am very tired after that last sentence, I think I shall stop there.

Some sort of a prize to the first person who responds...

J

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it. - KM

2007/06/30 10:20:14 PDT by bhuynh
Edited at 2007/07/01 11:48:24 PDT
[bhuynh's avatar]

I honestly don't really know what your talking about...I haven't read Winnie the Pooh in a while and I don't remember the plot or storyline of it either.

P.S. Joseph, you don't need the <blockquotes>'s in there. If you're trying to write the quotes

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like this

use [quote ]insert text here

[/quote] and take out the space.

2007/06/30 12:08:02 PDT by M Huang
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awww I lost =[[ but that's a very interesting run-on sentence, and like Brian, I don't really understand what it means.

I was tired

so I ate a cookie

but now I'm still tired T_T

2007/07/02 07:29:33 PDT by jscalice
Quote from bhuynh:

I honestly don't really know what your talking about...I haven't read Winnie the Pooh in a while and I don't remember the plot or storyline of it either.

P.S. Joseph, you don't need the <blockquotes>'s in there. If you're trying to write the quotes

Quote:

like this

use [quote ]insert text here

and take out the space.

[/quote]

Thanks. That's really helpful. And, um, I wasn't really "talking about" anything. It's just a terrific run-on sentence.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it. - KM

2007/07/02 22:20:53 PDT by SChan
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haha it reminds me when girls are blabbing about something. It's really random actually.

do you know how your story ends?

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