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I asked a West Virginian what Moonshine tasted like and he said;“It’s like drinking fire.”
That made me think I needed to start a new category for what I consider original lines or at least ones I consider fresh.
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Screenwriting from Iowa- Postcard #175 (Hemingway’s Grave)No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. —John Donne (from the poem For Whom the Bell Tolls) Yesterday I visited Ernest Hemingway’s grave in Ketchum, Idaho. After college I did the drive around the county and find yourself thing and made a […]Scott W. Smith
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