03-16-2016, 04:04 AM
Hello, Matt, thank you very much for your kind and honest feedback, and I look forward to reading some of your work!
"Peanut-smelling" is a reference to old-timey American carnivals, where punters might eat peanuts from paper bags while wandering around the freak show. You're right about the sagging desks; I was thinking of folding-tables, the kind you see at boot sales or swap meets, but couldn't make that fit the rhythm I was going for.
"Peanut-smelling" is a reference to old-timey American carnivals, where punters might eat peanuts from paper bags while wandering around the freak show. You're right about the sagging desks; I was thinking of folding-tables, the kind you see at boot sales or swap meets, but couldn't make that fit the rhythm I was going for.
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