Press flowers, keep ticket stubs, write lyrics, overhear conversations, sketch people and places you see, write passing thoughts and anything else you want.
If a written pass, signed by the proper authority, had been presented to me, I should have passed the bearer".
So I was a little nervous about writing prose and having what I'd written pass as a book.
The supposedly hapless Citigroup drowned its sorrows by watching a little bill it wrote pass into law.
"Our deepest thoughts and feelings," he wrote, "pass to us" through "compound experiences" that dissolve the gap between one end of the time line and the other.
"The Petit family," he wrote, "passed through their fear into the calm waters of abject terror".
As Eisinger writes, "Passing on one investigation is understandable; passing on every single one starts to speak to something else".
Dr. Watson and Dr. Crick also used a report Dr. Franklin had written, passed to them by Max Perutz, a colleague and member of a research oversight committee.
So I lied in both tone and fact: "I have to be in Beijing for a freelance assignment," I wrote, passing it off as fun coincidence.
About boarding a JetBlue flight with Daphne, the pig, Marx writes, "Passing through security with a pig in your arms is easier than doing so without one: you get to keep your shoes on and skip the full-body scanner".
