He is always firing off a message to Townend or to Snorky or to his agent announcing the completion of yet another new novel or show or batch of stories, every one of them a "corker".
Happily, she is not one of those terrifying literary widows you read about within the pages of the New Yorker, hoarding and proprietorial, always firing off furious letters to this inquisitive scholar and that nosy biographer: a wife desperate to bolster her role as muse and amanuensis.
Despite his move to New Hampshire in 1953, his aversion to publicity and his withdrawal from the New York scene, Mr. Salinger, by his own admission, could not always resist the impulse to fire off cranky letters to people who criticized his behavior, polite letters to schoolchildren who popped questions and flowery letters to women who caught his eye.
By contrast, Judy, who divorced Andy and his older brother's father when Andy was 11, tries to keep things light and fun and can't always resist the urge to fire off a tweet about one of her son's comelier colleagues, particularly the Spanish player Feliciano Lopez, whom she has dubbed "Deliciano".
Instead, run around in the crouched position and always be ready to pull the Left Trigger to aim and fire off a few shots when you see enemy movement.
To fire off 100 rounds without reloading?
As far as fire, under us, there is always fire".
Technically, it can fire off tomorrow".
You fire off more than 30 shots.
It was only as you watched him firing off questions – always pertinent, always perceptive, always aimed at cutting through the flummery and getting to the meat of the thing – that you realised what poor stuff the average presenter is made of.
