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Taking notes, however, has one big problem: the person you're interviewing often starters talking faster than you can write. You are still scribbling sentence A when he zooms into sentence B. You drop A and purse him into sentence B, meanwhile trying to hold the rest of Z in your inter ear and hoping sentence C will be a dud that you can skip it altogether, using the time to catch up. Unfortunately, you now have your subject going at a high speed. He is finally saying all the things you have been trying to cajole out of him for an hour, and saying them with what seems to be Churchillian eloquence.


That is so true. I have not done very many interview but what he say is very true on the ones I have done. The person say everything that you want them to say in about 20 sentences, also in about a minute and a half. You hear the perfect sentence for an paragraph in your essay, but by the time you get it on paper it sounds different then how the person said it. I think the reason people doing an interview does this because they think it is funny to watch.

fiction

The line rose slowly and steadily and then the surface of the ocean bulged ahead of the boat and the fish came out. He came out unending and water poured from his sides. He was bright in the sun and his head and back were dark purple and in the sun the stripes on his sides showed wide and a light lavender. His sword was as long as a baseball bat and tapered like a rapier and he rose his full length from the water and then re-entered it, smoothly, like a diver and the old man saw the great scythe-blade of his tail go under and the line commenced to race out.



That would of been awesome! I have had only a few fish, which were lake trout and sucker fish leave the water like that. And it is so cool when they do that. Also when they hit the water and the leaur does not come out of there mouth. You get to see the moving, wiggling body's, that are usly between 12 and 18 inches, for a flash then they go back under. So I can not even imagine the fish being longer than the boat.