A shot of Hagemura the Violet Turaco, somewhat timid one with poor crest. It looked fast asleep, leaning agaist the perch. Such a sight made me sleepy as well.....
Messrs. Strunk and White don't speculate as to why so many writers are attracted to passive verbs, but I'm willing to; I think timid writers like them for the same reason timid lovers like passive partners.
So I began to try and think like a puffin and I realized that if young puffins did remember this island, maybe they wouldn't come ashore because they were too timid.
We are going to be dead pretty soon and all those cancer stories point us in one direction only: towards the need to stop being a craven, imitative, second hand timid flunkey and herd-animal.