That was a real revelation, and I distinctly remember writing it down.
It shared the programme with Beethoven's Ninth, in which the choir's articulation was equally pristine, with the sopranos in particular hurling themselves fearlessly at some distinctly awkward writing.
The music could soundtrack the opening titles of a spaghetti western, and a chorus of backing singers intones the same couplet 15 times: "All the tired horses in the sun / How'm I s'posed to get any riding done?" The approved version of the lyrics says "riding"; at times, though, it sounds distinctly like "writing".
There are at least three emails in my life that I can distinctly remember writing when angry, and I know I regret everyone of them.
While that may technically be true, it's an awfully fine splitting of hairs since we distinctly remember writing this story about a Vans tie-in with "The Simpsons Movie" back in 2007.
Maybe, as I think about it now, a little bit of Zora did find its way into that story, though I distinctly remember writing that story before I read Zora's wonderful book.
"Be it distinctly recorded here," wrote Herman Melville in "Moby-Dick," "that the Nantucketers were the first among mankind to harpoon with civilized steel the great Sperm Whale; and that for half a century they were the only people of the whole globe who so harpooned him".
JM Barrie, Robert Louis Stevenson, E Nesbit, Frances Hodgson Burnett and Anna Sewell all wrote in distinctly different genres that have been passed on, like DNA, to present-day authors.
"The advent of professional cuddling and friend rentals seems to be serving a distinctly modern need," writes Olga Oksman in CityLab.
"This must be distinctly understood," he writes, "or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate".
