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you don't want to get me starting on the fine distinctions between 'regular verbs and nouns' and gerunds, such as in 'i would like coffee' vs. 'i would like to have lived in x' vs. 'i would like being there.'

speaking of 'a' -- i was just discussing it with tiramisu e, who had never thought about the issue before (!), and we agreed that you can set up an entire 'establishing shot' in a piece of fiction just by using the conjunction.

e.g. she was living in ann arbor, 'a' she didn't have a car [the readers interject here, 'was she supposed to? is it necessary?']

i wrote a letter to the photo editor of the local paper in ns to complain about the shitty work they were doing showing images of the flood, and i said, "...[photographs are bad], [a] it's especially hard to see larger versions of these photographs, when it's possible at all."