A grey bird glided in and out of Harry's field of vision.
I understand that white lions, in Lion Park near Cape Town are fed chickens too.
Welcome to today's pablum. It'll be a short description of a seven kilometre walk to the butcher for a chicken. I felt a bit odd carrying this chicken around on my back for so long, remembering Douglas Adams description of a trip to visit Komodo Dragons in his book, Last Chance to See.
"Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery farm in England, people who wouldn't think twice about buying something oven-ready become much more upset about a chicken that they've been on a boat with, so there is probably buried in the Western psyche a deep taboo about eating anything you've been introduced to socially."
Other than walking, looking and talking (all very rewarding), I was thinking about mandative subjunctives and the post positive intensive adjective - a form of insanity perhaps. Anyway, I had insisted that we take this this big-ass walk to get the chicken and I was determined to understand its grammar, of the sentence that is. So the mandative subjuncive is me insisting we take whereas the intensive (post positive, of course) is the ass.
So how are we doing with first lines? Did you catch the boy called Santiago in The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho?
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