Michal's considering the concept of extending his noble Fiction Corpus with a rehashing of the bible story; cites fatigue
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I have faith in the possibility of using English as everybody's second language. I don't trust in the dullish steps through which English is presented for study.
Reenforcing one's expertness with a language isn't like making a cleaner piece of coal. A language is not just a tool that you can learn to employ with a greater amount of precision. A shared language can't be unyoked from the shared logic of a community of which it is a description. A language isn't recited; it happens - and keeps happening as long as a circle of people keeps using it.
Teaching a student to recite English is to rob her of its cultural context. A good teacher must develop a plan for introducing it; the smartest pupil goes out to seek it.
A dictionary can be an influential tool. A decent dictionary will define words on the basis of a specific corpus, a body of writing of varying scope and consistency. Such a corpus could include everything from a book about literature to an entire set of drama plays. I developed my "unprepossessing" Fiction Corpus to form a specific genre of dictionary based on the ability of one man to tell a story in myriad forms. It is a labor of love and listening.
I have molded a million words and I have diagnosed them, reshaping them - not simply to teach the English tongue but to be an advocate for the human spirit, and to provoke that soul or spirit not just to recite but to happen.
A word can represent many things. First and foremost it represents a type of gesture. A specific way of speaking. A specific way of inscribing a mark. A specific way of moving your hand. To know one of these kinds of gestures is to know how to pronounce the word storm in some kind of way.
If you want to communicate an idea using the word storm, you will need to know what other people are made to think when you make the gesture. You will never have complete awareness of or control over the associations or identities that are invoked by a set of words, but you can know what was and what is a single word's jointly accepted definition, at least for a given place, thereby tracing a direction which will help you to understand what kinds of associations and identities are driving its use.
By using the word yourself, you enter into a long-standing albeit oftentimes unconscious debate over its definition, forever entangling yourself into the history of its use. The way you use it, and which other words you use it with carries weight.
The more you know about where the word storm is located in the fabric of a language, the better you will be at exploiting its cultural power.
Pronunciation of Storm
I have yet to publish a pronunciation for the word storm.
Video of me pronouncing "storm."
Definition of Storm
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I'm sure it won't take too long.
Common use of storm in illustrative example sentences
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Usage of Storm in Michal's Fiction Corpus
Michal's Fiction Corpus of Acceptance Literature (FiCAL) is presented under the Bare Bottom imprint. It is currently comprised of six bodies of work, each representing a different pillar of culture and incorporating a wide variety of writhing styles.
I have yet to make a morphological analysis of the word storm.
That doesn't mean it's not high on my list.
Table of Frequency for the Word "Storm."
This table lists in descending order the total number of times that the word stormand any of its morphological derivations appears in the Fiction Corpus, along with a breakdown of frequency by title, the respective rank of each word in the complete list of all words in the Corpus, as calculated both densely and competitively, as well as the percent increase in frequency of the word over the frequency of the next lowest rank in the complete list.
Percent Increase over next rank
RANK
WORD
Frequency
TOTAL # of occurences
MCDONALDS
JESUS
SEX
TSIGA
JACKSON
DINGBATS
dense
competitive
modern/sloppy
biblical/terse
poetic/high-brow
hard/fast
talky
mixed salad
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I have yet to publish the table of frequency for the word storm, but I will get to it shortly. -Michal
A story bible for a comic book series set in a post climate-change California narrated by eight characters who live through a natural disaster that sinks Los Angeles and triggers a war with an expansionist Mexican government covertly supported by China.
Frame #6451
harley stormed out. after thanking me for making hulu suffer this morning for nothing. now shell never sleep with me.
An experimental science fiction Christology that makes Jesus the hard boiled narrator of his own early years on a bizarro earth made dark by volcanic ash and informally ruled by a man from Mars who sells bottled air.
"Beloved sister," I said, "where have I been? When did I leave my lamb? You were like a newborn child whose brother pulled you on a string. You were my infant in an open box, left behind in a snowstorm. 'Where are you!' I yelled, but you were gone. You were covered in snow: invisible to selfish eyes who couldn't see that the string had long since broken. I lost you, child! I never turned around! I failed you and this is my punishment!
"Alright," he said. "I'll leave you alone. You can do whatever you goddamn want. I'll see you in the morning - maybe - if I'm lucky. Goddamn it." He stormed out.
After that first guard, everything went according to plan. It was perfect. Calling Stalin, I climbed to the third floor. Entering Zoe's room, I locked the door and climbed into the air-conditioning duct. Two minutes later, when the song hit the bridge and the bass line changed, I was approaching Leonard Cohen-Krupnik's bathroom. Twenty seconds later, I was inside. Removing my mask, I stormed out, raised my gun, and yelled, "Get up!"
The Martian, thanks to Stalin's forethought, turned up on his own. He was among the dead after we stormed the Radisson Hotel, which Stalin suggested we do posthaste. If not for that assault, he might have escaped through the park. No doubt the Krupnik had made some kind of shady arrangement for his partner's sake by bribing one of the checkpoints, but, fortunately, Jesus's Confederation had men stationed on every bridge and every checkpoint around the Old Town, making sure that no deals were made. By then, the Martian, realizing his plan had gone to hell, must have figured out that the park was his only chance. The Radisson had no doubt been a center of operations for terrorists on that side of the city.
A literature book narrated by a pair of siblings on either side of the Atlantic whose profoundly weird sexual experiences pose a serious challenge to their traditional understanding of mathematicians, marriage, gay young men and God.
Your presence in your words was comforting, and I confess that, until now, I have suffered from your absence, and I held myself, by all accounts, among the lonelier of men - and all despite my attractive company. But without you, Sister, I am like a cloud without a storm, like a steppe without a fire, like a stable without a horse: I am too open for these times; I am too vulnerable to be sitting in this hospital by myself. Luckily, there's this letter I'm writing; your letter I have too: I keep it in my breast pocket. I have underlined all the best parts, and the parts with which I disagree - but those are of little importance.
– Title 3, Regarding a Dream, Chapter 1, The First Day, Part 1, Victory & Calendar Reform, Section 2, Poetics, Paragraph 4, Clauses 8-12
Like streams of consciousness converging, former thoughts and current questions began flooding my mind. My heart was in danger. I took a deep breath and I held it in my chest, as if to reinforce the floodgates cradling my heart. I had to protect her from being overwhelmed by my sick and moiling stomach, or the storm clouds of my mind. I began a deep and steady breathing, calmly pumping away the feeling with my diaphragm, blowing out my nose, trying to dissipate my thoughts. But my thoughts - even without the weight of feeling welling up against me, pressuring my soul, churning my stomach - these thoughts were not dissolvable. They would not go away, and how could I let them infuse my heart? that fountain of dangerous feeling? that chemical dynamo that would send them shooting to my throat - give them voice! - no! that would send them bursting through my mouth in sentences of self-destructing rancor - an explosive solution, one which I would not allow to break my stony face.
A collection of stories featuring a sexy Parisian ghost, a spooky Moon base full of vagina-faced aliens, a policeman with an Irish name, a truck full of watermelons, a flautist, and a man who has to see another man about a diseased horse.
Tatum stormed off. Neal climbed out. He begged her to stop. Naked and dripping wet, he followed Tatum down the corridor. "How do you know I had anything to do with it? Maybe a random crook stole your PDA." He watched Tatum put on her shoes. She took her stockings in her hand. Without so much as giving Neal a dirty look, she left.
Junior realized what was happening. Any incipient anger he might have had went out like a match in a thunderstorm. This was too good. "Purse deserves a reward," he thought to himself. "He's been working so hard." The longer he enjoyed it, the less he felt he had to justify it.
Her apartment was ransacked. Everything was on the floor: her clothes, her notepads, her electronic newspapers-even her toys. Tatum gasped. The PDA was gone. She stormed back to the stadium. Barging into the administrative office, she told the frightened, bewildered Manga People that if any of them were responsible for burglarizing her apartment, she would go ape-shit . She was going to call the bailiffs.
There was no way of keeping it a secret. Nyota heard from Debbie. Junior was training his accountant to ride Clutch Bag strapless. She stormed up to the longeing ring. She slapped Junior on the face. She cried, "How could you lie to me?"
"Tell that to the locals. Weren't you listening to Polina? The desert's been growing for two thousand years. The Communists made it worse. There are sand storms in Beijing now. They say they're building a Green Wall of China. Good luck. It'll take them a hundred years to dig the holes."
"Look at the desert highway," said Shephard. "They lined five hundred kilometers with shrubs. It didn't take them that long."
A real play. With drama in it. Talk fast. It takes two hours. Set in a guest house. In a small community. After a murder. Lots of suspicion. The characters learn to listen to each other. It's funny.
"Storm" does not make an appearance in Sorry Miss Jackson.
A story book full of short fiction stories. An interesting bedtime mystery. A fairy tale. Science fiction romance. Adult life. Uninspiring gay fiction. Horror.
"Storm" does not make an appearance in Miscellaneous Dingbats
This table lists in descending order of frequency a selection of word pairs that appear in the Fiction Corpus and groups them according to the morphological derivation of the word storm that appears in the pair.
Type
WORD
Frequency
TOTAL # of occurences
MCDONALDS
JESUS
SEX
TSIGA
JACKSON
DINGBATS
modern/sloppy
biblical/terse
poetic/high-brow
hard/fast
talky
mixed salad
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I have yet to perform a collocation analysis of "storm." I hope I can get it done sometime soon. -Michal
If a 45-year-old businesswoman and hard working mother of three kids is going to pose nude for a calendar, it's gonna have to be a good one. Margo didn't start a coffee shop called the Vagina Cafe to win her favors from the establishment. Even as she dishes out prizes to the 20 women who placed last in the twentienth anniversary run of her town's biggest road race, her business, unlike everyone else, doesn't get mentioned. She was an official sponsor for Christ's sake! But the announcer just couldn't swallow his patriarchy and get the words "Vagina Cafe" out of his mouth. That's not something a proper gentleman would say in front of a crowd of humble God-fearing "ladies" who cherish their modesty! And a Body Acceptance Calendar is certainly not what a humble God-fearing book-seller like a Barnes and Noble would put on their shelves! So how do I expect to sell this in the mainstream? Maybe if you download the free versions a thousand billion times it might help. Start downloading.
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