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December 01, 2005 |
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When I Took Care of Shit
FOUND by Niki Harris
in Bend, Oregon
Today, I was driving to Bend when I listened to your interview. When I arrived at my partner Bob's place we went out in the yard, and near the street, I picked up this note. I was surprised how much it seemed to be up your alley.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
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Smart note, because Viv and Doc are code names.
lol, took care of shit for pain caused to his daughter? how sinister and gangster does that sound! I wonder how doc is gonna make home boy apologize, and what the writer did for viv... so much mystery!
hey i'm from bend, too.
I love the complex grammatical structure of this sentence. I'm in search of someone who can correctly describe it. It is certainly beyond my ability.
Crisis, I'd describe it as a structurally complex crumpled run-on sentence.
Hahahahaha! Well done, Nightingale. I also asked a grammar expert if he would be willing to parse this sentence for me, and this was his kind response:
The core clause is 'I'm shocked that...'. This is qualified by 'After what I did for Viv last night'--the two clauses stand as protasis (given that x, if x, assuming that x) and apodosis (y = "I'm shocked"). The rest is a subclause "Doc wouldn't make homeboy [I'm taking this as a name] apologize for the way he acted towards me when I took care of shit for pain caused to his daughter." The whole line "the way... his daughter" can be taken as a noun-clause which is the object of 'apologize for', with the 'when... daughter' acting as a clause qualifying the time of the action. The only ungrammatical part is the word 'for' in 'shit for pain'--it is not clear what the relationship is between the 'pain caused to his daughter' and 'when I took care of shit'.
Holy cow, Crisis! Hahahaha! He didn't mention that it was crumpled, though.
good thing this person used code names in their note. what if somebody random found it?
After what he did for ... Ancient Vivi?
http://foundmagazine.com/find/1881
(sure, probably just a glitch of the crumpling, but it looks like there's a little star that acts as the dot for an understood I.)