From e43ff83b96ebc19c5c7494d525848ec1c0c63141 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Madison Scott-Clary Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2021 16:20:03 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] update from sparkleup --- diary/2021-12-31.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/diary/2021-12-31.md b/diary/2021-12-31.md index 5633dccc..500dd2f4 100644 --- a/diary/2021-12-31.md +++ b/diary/2021-12-31.md @@ -6,3 +6,4 @@ Starting sentences with "It is..." (or was, etc) 1. Only add a third word --- "It was television." 2. Stretch it out, less than ten words --- "It was television, pure and simple, without dispute." 3. Let it ramble --- "It was television, pure and simple, without dispute, and though some may dispute that, I maintain that it stands still as the platonic ideal, a metonym for all shows that come after, the Ur-show that took a genre, a medium, a generation away from tenuous explorations and shoved it without remorse into the world we inhabit today, and one might wonder, should such a thing not have happened, how unfortunate and insipid our lives-in-entertainment might be today." +4. Now replace that sentence without "It is" to be more evocative --- "Television, pure and simple, without dispute. There's no way that we can take what we had from that show and say anything but. I maintain that it *still* stands as the platonic ideal, a metonym for all shows that came after. It was the Ur-show that took a genre, a medium, a generation away from the tenuous explorations and shoved, without remorse into the world we inhabit today. And one might wonder, should such a thing not have happened, how unfortunate and insipid our lives-in-entertainment might be today."