If you want your son or daughter to be positive. Like to enjoy life and so on and so on - focus on the positive, nature, birds, quite and fast waterfalls... If you want to be negative which will mean a killer, a slaughter focus on the negative. Kill infront of the eyes a chicken slaughter it, fast and quick... do it often, read scary horror books!
That's why I've just gone on _ collecting this particular kind of stuff _ what you might call riff-raff. There's not a book here, Lawford, that hasn't at least a glimmer of the real thing in it _ just Life, seen through a living eye, and felt. As for literature, and style, and all that gallimaufry, don't fear for them if your author has the ghost of a hint of genius in his making.
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That's why I've just gone on _ collecting this particular kind of stuff _ what you might call riff-raff. There's not a book here, Lawford, that hasn't at least a glimmer of the real thing in it _ just Life, seen through a living eye, and felt. As for literature, and style, and all that gallimaufry, don't fear for them if your author has the ghost of a hint of genius in his making.
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