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Swearing Gently - 01.02.08 B

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She swore gently.  The author was always making her swear gently; it was appalling.  How the fuck does one swear gently?  Do you whisper it like a coy lover?  Or mumble it like you might mumble lullabies to a babe near sleep?  It’s bloody impossible, you cannot swear gently!  She glared fiercely at the author; damn bitch just didn’t have enough adverbs and the ones she had: she didn’t know how to use.  The author chided her, reminding her that digressions really were unattractive in prose. To which she sharply pointed out that if she had digressed it was only because the author had written her in digressing.  In frustration the author tried to pencil in the next scene, ungrateful little shits those characters.  But she, the nasty little blighter, was only too quick to remind that if the characters were ill tempered it was only because the author had made them thus.  Viciously throwing the pencil onto the desktop, the author rose and strode out of the room, seeking air.  As the pencil clattered to the floor, the author swore – not gently.
Is not the purpose of a good novel to blur the boundaries between what is fiction and what is fact?
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Year and a half later, still wonderful.