From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Sat, 21 Jun 2014 12:28:27 -0700 (PDT), "J.Pascal"   
    wrote in   
      
   in rec.arts.sf.composition:   
      
   > On Saturday, June 21, 2014 12:41:05 PM UTC-6, Brian M.   
   > Scott wrote:   
      
   >> On Sat, 21 Jun 2014 00:11:34 -0700 (PDT), William Vetter   
   >>  wrote in   
   >>    
   >> in rec.arts.sf.composition:   
      
   >> [...]   
      
   >>> The following passage is from a literary fiction novel   
   >>> _Tending to Virginia_, by Jill McCorkle.  Virginia is the   
   >>> POV character.  She is pregnant.   
      
   >>> And she hates yellow.  She wishes there was absolutely   
   >>> nothing yellow in the entire world.  "Yellow is perfect   
   >>> for a nursery because it can go either way--boy or girl,   
   >>> yellow," the tennis guy's wife had said.  Screw her,   
   >>> impregnate her, paint her life yellow.   
      
   >>> Did you understand that?   
      
   >> Yes.  She's very unhappy, and she's heaping maledictions on   
   >> the tennis guy's wife, who suggested painting the nursery   
   >> yellow, since that would be suitable for a boy or a girl.   
   >> Since she hates yellow, at least at the moment, 'paint her   
   >> life yellow' is a pretty strong malediction.   
      
   > I think it's possible that she really really hates being pregnant, too.   
      
   Oh, absolutely; I intended ‘very unhappy’ to include that.   
      
   [...]   
      
   Brian   
   --   
   It was the neap tide, when the baga venture out of their   
   holes to root for sandtatties.  The waves whispered   
   rhythmically over the packed sand: haggisss, haggisss,   
   haggisss.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)