There’s a grammar rule that native
English speakers follow without even
realizing it. When describing something
in detail, adjectives are listed in this
order: opinion, size, age, shape, color,
origin, material, purpose. So, while
asking someone to hand you the ‘ugly
little old rectangular brown Italian
leather notebook’ may sound natural,
asking them for the ‘Italian old brown
little rectangular leather ugly notebook’
sounds completely wrong- even if you
can’t explain why. Source
Walking past Serendipity’s cage I glance over and see this pressed against the front of her enclosure, draped partially over a branch, looking very strange and bad. My heart jumps into my throat and I fling her cage open in panic hoping I’m not too late to help my baby girl. I tentatively touch her strangely papery skin and her body moves slightly and her little pink face rises up out of the substrate, wearing the tail of what I now recognize as her shed skin across her face like a hoodie.
She had apparently shed and then, deciding that she wasn’t quite done with the old skin, crawled back inside of it, backwards and inside-out, in what is possibly the second-best troll job a snake has ever pulled on me.
Nice prank, Serendipity. A++
Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go lie down for a bit.
No matter what Stephen King writes,
he’ll always be a ‘horror writer’. An old
woman once came up to him in a store
and said, ‘I know who you are. You’re the
horror writer. I don’t read anything that
you do… I just like things more genuine,
like that Shawshank Redemption.’ When
he told her he’d written that, too, she
said, ‘No you didn’t,’ and walked away.
