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Just learned about garden path sentences.

They’re basically a literary prank– the sentence starts out in such a way that you think you know where it’s going, but the way it ends completely changes the meaning while still being a complete and logical sentence. Usually it deals with double meanings, or with words that can be multiple parts of speech, like nouns and verbs or nouns and adjectives.

So we get gems like

The old man the boat. (The old people are manning the boat)

The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families. (The apartment complex is home to both married and single soldiers, plus their families)

The prime number few. (People who are excellent are few in number.)

The cotton clothing is usually made of grows in Mississipi. (The cotton that clothing is made of)

The man who hunts ducks out on weekends. (As in he ducks out of his responsibilities)

We painted the wall with cracks. (The cracked wall is the one that was pained.)

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thoughtkick

“I’m not perfect… But I’m enough.”

— Carl Rogers

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quotemadness

“Invest in yourself. You can afford it. Trust me.”

— Rashon Carraway

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real-life-in-miniature

After a solid two weeks of work, Mike’s basement from Stranger Things is finished (mostly I still need tiny things that had to be 3D printed but I don’t have one of those). The DnD table doubles as El’s fort hideout too bc I had to scale down the dio’s size a bit.

jewexican

I have written and erased 10 messages throughout the day to send to you in hopes that I could hold your hand through the words I speak. The withdrawal hurts…

…whatever you need I’ll give… even if what you need is to be away from me.

blackgirlsvevo

drunk girls will meet u for five minutes and show u more unconditional love and support than ur own father

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Sometimes I do a little junk journaling

#junkjournal #love

heavyweightheart

Research has shown that pleasure affects nutrient absorption. In a 1970s study of Swedish and Thai women, it was found that when the Thai women were eating their own (preferred) cuisine, they absorbed about 50% more iron from the meal than they did from eating the unfamiliar Swedish food. And the same was true in the reverse for the Swedish women. When both groups were split internally and one group given a paste made from the exact same meal and the other was given the meal itself, those eating the paste absorbed 70% less iron than those eating the food in its normal state.

Pleasure affects our metabolic pathways; it’s a facet of the complex gut-brain connection. If you’re eating foods you don’t like because you think it’s healthy, it’s not actually doing your body much good (it’s also unsustainable, we’re pleasure-seeking creatures). Eat food you enjoy, it’s a win-win.