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We're best at the long high throws. Like when you take four or five steps and rip it- It's almost like a shotput approach, the steps, four or five quick, one over the other, kind of sideways-like-and then you slash away with that fucker, it's such a violent act, throwing that white thing, you're first cradling it to your breast and then you whip that fucker as hard as you can while keeping it level, keeping it straight, but otherwise with everything you can send with it you whip that fucker like it had blades on it and you wanted it to cut straight through the paperblue sky like a screen, rip through it and have it be blood and back space beyond.

Dave Eggers#8

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About this quote

What does it mean?
Vivid description of throwing something with extreme force. It equates the act with violence.
In plain terms
Throwing something hard like it has blades.
What can you take from it?
Physical actions can feel violent and meaningful.

Where it applies

  • sports
  • catharsis
  • action writing

Putting it to work

  • describing motion
  • expressing release
  • writing intensity

Questions to consider

  • What makes a throw feel violent?
  • How does physicality express emotion?

Another view

Romanticizes violent physical acts.

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