WIP… wait is it Thursday already?
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Scott crossed the cafe in a slow strut, head bobbing, elbows flapping, eyes unblinking. He paused for dramatic effect near the entrance door, head jerking to one side then the other, before squawking “BAAAH-CAAAAAHHHK!” at an innocent pot plant.
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I’ve been pondering this, as I do, because I get slightly obsessed with ensuring all the words are doing what they are supposed to. And I can’t work out why the word innocent is required. How could a pot plant be anything but innocent? Why would its guilt status make any difference anyway? And yet… the image doesn’t hit half as well without it 🤔
Perhaps we would find Scott’s behaviour less shocking if he was squawking at a male lovely pot plant? 🤷♀️
Writing is weird.
True…but that “innocent” is a necessary part of the sentence.
It implies that the plant out is innocent…but Scott, in picking on it, is not!
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Ahahaha, well indeed. Contrast and all that 🤣
I can assure you not all pot plants are innocent




















