T is reading this at the moment, and keeps reading out to me particularly poor pieces of writing. You have to wonder, if Mosse hadn't been the administrator of the Orange Prize, would it have got published?
As for "bolt upright", my money is on it being a corruption of "bald upright", ie. sitting up so fast that your hair gets left behind on the pillow.
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Date: 2006-04-08 03:36 pm (UTC)As for "bolt upright", my money is on it being a corruption of "bald upright", ie. sitting up so fast that your hair gets left behind on the pillow.