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Life – a user's manual Part II - Boksidan

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- I will probably go home now, I must have some cold or something. Lisa have been home for a few days,<br />

that's probably her cold that I received.<br />

- Yeah! Said Thomas, they're like little viral bombs. But it's okay, we tell the boss. Is there something else<br />

that we should do<br />

I shook my head while I thanked them and felt a little heat from their kindness spread in my body. Then I<br />

went as fast as I could without even turning off the computer or reprogram the phone. I did not stop to talk to<br />

anyone during the walk down to the car, except for one guy from the design department who I greeted when<br />

passing. The weather was autumnal with a light rain that would otherwise not have troubled me so much<br />

during the short walk to the car. Now it got me to freeze so that my hands were shaking. I had to sit for<br />

several minutes with the climate system on maximum heat, before I released the handbrake, put in a gear and<br />

drove away."<br />

It got worse, right<br />

If you let the main character observe and tell us what is happening it is, as I said, important to note that the<br />

text match how it would have sounded if the imaginary protagonist had told the story himself. Furthermore,<br />

one should avoid describing events that he would not have thought it would be interesting to tell. It is also<br />

important to remember that people usually leave out all unnecessary environmental descriptions in oral<br />

storytelling. In addition, most people use a more undifferentiated language with many repetitions, for<br />

example, "he came, then she came," compared with conventional written language.<br />

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