Hey, I've been there. Traveling across Canada living out of my car and the odd hostel. Place felt like the Bates motel. Huge empty ballroom/dining room that you had to walk through to get to the hotel kitchen and cook your own food, as a couple of rummy guys explained to me. Creaking doors with eyes peering out at you. You just know people disappear there. Nathaniel
> > Seedy hotel rooms can be found at The Royal Albert Arms, > >> LOL! >> >> Where's Winnigeg? :-) >> >> >> >> >> Joy >> >> >> :::-----Original Message----- >> :::From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On >> Behalf >> :::Of Loren Busch >> :::Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2006 3:05 PM >> :::To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >> :::Subject: Re: Writers aren't artists >> ::: >> :::Dont need no two pages, how about two sentences? >> ::: >> :::It was growing dark in the seedy Winnigeg hotel room as the >> naked fakir >> :::sat >> :::on his bed of nails, watching his monkey once again try to >> silence the >> :::talking cat food can with a hammer. But above the din he could >> still >> :::hear >> :::the can repeating, over and over again, "Bad Karma, Bad Karma...". >> ::: >> :::On 12/24/06, Nathaniel Poole <npoole@telus.net> wrote: >> :::> >> :::> On 12/24/06 10:34 AM, "Joy Hecht" <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU> wrote: >> :::> >> :::> >> :::> But I think the best enlightenment I can offer is an >> assignment. Write >> :::a >> :::> two >> :::> page story that must contain a monkey, a hammer, a naked fakir >> in a >> :::seedy >> :::> Winnipeg hotel room, and a talking, philosophical cat food can. >> :::> >> :::> |
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