Almost very morning, I wake up with the first chapter of a new book I am not going to write (not without a contract and a new home) and sometimes I write them down, but mostly I don't. You will find out why!
2 july 2010
'He was very polite. He minded his Ps and Qs.'
'And his Rs and Ss.'
'He wasn't no punk rocker, spouting out paternal propaganda. He was a questor, asking quality questions. He did not rant and rave with the rhetoric of the rapist. He wasn't stupid, following silly (I've forgotten the word beginning with S already) of the sodomites. He was a weird one."
Well I just jot down ideas and one day I may get a composition.
Research:
Definitions of Ps and Qs on the Web:
Mind your Ps and Qs is an English expression meaning "mind your manners", "mind your language", "be on your best behaviour" or similar.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ps_and_Qs
More, it might come together. Lots of first chapters beginning in the pub.
A second origin story comes from early printing presses. Printers placed individual letters on a typeset to print a page of text. The letters were reversed, making it easy to mistake lowercase p's and q's in setting the type.
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