So, here I was reading Richard Brautigan's In Watermelon Sugar. Pfff. I know, he's great and there's no other possible assumption but give me a break man! In the book there are two female characters, Margaret and Pauline. One is heartbroken and dies while the other cooks carrots and gets the man. Whatever. I immediately sided with Margaret. And then I found out, thanks to Wikipedia, that Neko Case (from The New Pornographers and for some years now on her own) wrote a song about them and that she also sided with the loser. Ha! I went to my Music Folder and there it was her album Fox confessor brings the flood that I hadn't listen to in ages and, as I played Margaret Vs Pauline, I even began to look at the book in a new light. I love her voice:
And, as I listened to the whole album, I recognised another song, one that Marianne Faithfull sings and I didn't know it was a cover from Neko Case. Ha!
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Ok, missis autonómica, this is what happens when a theorical man like me, pretend to teach english to a pretty blonde who lives and works in london center. all rigth, i must reconigse de second conditional is the only rule i know, but it sounds really intelectual and professional, or what?. I can´t compete in that barbarian languaje, i prefer the old rustic spanish. In this case i am unable to make you get angry, for inmediatly send you good feelings.
Marianne never dies, precious. and saloutatitons for those people in england reading at the antonomática.
Regulero se queda corto. Tu ingles digo. The second conditional in any case goes like this: If I were you I wouldn't eat those gofres. No didn't. Good feelings siempre.
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