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I get the impression it was small

  • Jul. 21st, 2008 at 5:43 PM
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Commander Swanson's cabin was bigger than a telephone booth, I'll say that for it, but not all that much bigger to shout about. A built-in bunk, a folding washbasin, a small writing-bureau and chair, a folding camp-stool, a locker, some calibrated repeater instrument dials above the bunk and that was about it. If you'd tried to perform the twist in there you'd have fractured yourself in a dozen places without ever moving your feet from the centre of the floor.
-- Alistair MacLean, Ice Station Zebra.

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[info]chrisbarnes wrote:
Jul. 22nd, 2008 03:54 am (UTC)
(commenting on your mood rather than the post itself)

"Expansive" is such a great term for a mood. For me it always conjures an image of someone sitting in a large comfy armchair, one leg crooked over the chair's arm, a glass of something in one hand, and gesturing widely with the other while talking enthusiastically. Languidly engaged, if that makes sense.
[info]deborahb wrote:
Jul. 22nd, 2008 11:38 am (UTC)
Dynamically lethargic? ;)

(Or should we not open up that conversation again...)
[info]chrisbarnes wrote:
Jul. 22nd, 2008 12:48 pm (UTC)
We could open that conversation, but... no, I'm feeling far more lethargic than dynamic.

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