From: b.scott@csuohio.edu

On Sat, 21 Jun 2014 00:11:34 -0700 (PDT), William Vetter
 wrote in

in rec.arts.sf.composition:

[...]

> The following passage is from a literary fiction novel
> _Tending to Virginia_, by Jill McCorkle.  Virginia is the
> POV character.  She is pregnant.

> And she hates yellow.  She wishes there was absolutely
> nothing yellow in the entire world.  "Yellow is perfect
> for a nursery because it can go either way--boy or girl,
> yellow," the tennis guy's wife had said.  Screw her,
> impregnate her, paint her life yellow.

> Did you understand that?

Yes.  She’s very unhappy, and she’s heaping maledictions on
the tennis guy’s wife, who suggested painting the nursery
yellow, since that would be suitable for a boy or a girl.
Since she hates yellow, at least at the moment, ‘paint her
life yellow’ is a pretty strong malediction.

Brian
--
It was the neap tide, when the baga venture out of their
holes to root for sandtatties.  The waves whispered
rhythmically over the packed sand: haggisss, haggisss,
haggisss.

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)