"I thought with writing that you could counter propaganda".
"I think I could have countered anything they threw at me".
I could have countered with a line about the irony of a pantomime dame complaining about cyclists wearing zany clothing but decided to deflect instead, pointing to my cycling outfit for the day: pressed shirt and smart trousers.
"There was simply nothing I could do to counter the pervasive psycho-autobiographic interpretation of these materials," Kelley wrote in a 1996 essay published in Architecture New York.
There are any number of collections I could draw on to counter this trenchant claim but, lacking the space to do so, I'll rely on just one example: the blueprint for all modern short story collections in my opinion.
And I wanted it to be plastic enough, sugary enough, delicious enough, and seductive enough that I could embed something really counter to that in the words, and the people would still inhale it.
"I wanted it to be plastic enough, sugary enough, delicious enough, and seductive enough that I could embed something really counter to that in the words, and that the people would still inhale it," she told me.
"I sought out the stereotypes and photographed them so I could then offer a counter," she wrote.
I could see its kitchen counter unattended, the view from the rear windows, the gray stillness of the twilight, the furniture, our pictures, the rows of books.
He also told me that I should look for a formulary that excluded another drug I took that I could buy over the counter for only $20 a month.
