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e69fc84
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"I'll fix it up with Mum and Dad, then I'll call you. I know how to use a fellytone now--" "A telephone, Ron," said Hermione. "Honestly, you should take Muggle Studies next year..."
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telephone
idiom
muggles
ron-weasley
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J.K. Rowling |
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0138d84
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This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone.
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life
telephone
technology
nostalgia
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Joyce Carol Oates |
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afe6e57
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"Amanda, you finally decided to answer the phone," her mom exclaimed after picking up at the first ring. "Where've you been, what've you been up to?" "Mom, do you remember when I was a kid, I had a friend, he was a Personification of the Sydney Tar Ponds, sort of my imaginary friend?" Mandy asked. "No, what in the name of god are you on about?" her mom sighed in exasperation. "Remember? Only I could see him, but he was real and he was my best friend when I was eighteen?" Mandy insisted. "No, I don't remember Alecto Sydney Steele at all," said her mom all too quickly."
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family
friendship
imaginary-companion
imaginary-playmate
invisible-friend
pretend-friend
sydney-tar-ponds
imaginary-friend
cape-breton
nova-scotia
call
telephone
dysfunctional-families
eighteen
pretend
canada
conversation
friend
talk
girl
mom
mother
invisible
remember
phone
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Rebecca McNutt |
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5dc8a7b
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"Every day it's something worse being predicted. Mearth says that sooner or later copyright on books will be all in the past because they'll all be available electronically. She says that electric cars will replace gasoline-powered cars. She says that something called drones will be used to watch the entire country, she talks a lot about something called nanotechnology, and 3-dimensional printing and cellular phones being implanted into peoples' minds and all available careers being replaced by robots and human cloning and overpopulation and film becoming obsolete, cellular phones making regular telephones obsolete and LED lighting replacing everything and eventually she says that the planet will collapse and become an apathetic wreck," Alecto replied rapidly, his run-on sentence sounding sinister and dangerous. "Mearth says that eventually people will be able to see inside the minds of everyone."
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led-lights
microchips
retro
nanotechnology
telephone
digital
obsolete
sinister
minds
film
technology
mental-illness
memory
nostalgia
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Rebecca McNutt |
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bf73665
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In angry protest the red telephone splintered the silence.
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telephone
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Ian Fleming |
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332a678
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"She is shocked by the rows of thick Plexiglas windows, each equipped with a telephone, each with a prisoner on one side and an outsider on the other. There is a teenage girl chatting with a prisoner who is presumably her father. There's a married couple talking to their daughter. There's a woman with a baby in her arms, sobbing into her phone as she begs her husband not to plead guilty for his crimes. Jail is terrifying to Geraldine, not only because it's a house of criminals but also because it's a cold slap in the face, a reminder of where she will eventually end up. "You've got to stay with me the whole time, Callo! I'm serious, you CANNOT leave me here." "I'll never," Callo vows, but he's eyeing her strangely. "Just remember which side of the glass you're on right now, Geraldine."
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plexiglas
slammer
prisoner
telephone
jail
glass
daughter
husband
prison
crime
strange
guilty
phone
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Rebecca McNutt |