W’s Reviews > Hurry On Down > Status Update

'Always do what they expect of you, and you'll be a success. How to make friends and influence people. How to influence friends and make people. How to people your friends' influences. Stop that. Make your influences your friends, stop that, get a grip on yourself.'

Love this method.

Thinking about a person from a younger generation speaking juxtaposed to their father -
"He talked a different language, for one thing; it was demotic English of the mid twentieth century, rapid, slurred, essentially a city dialect and, in origin, essentially American. By contrast it was a pleasure to hear his father, whose speech has been formed, along with all his other habits, before 1914;"
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'And I a twister love what I abhor'. The use of this line and its variations is very impactful as the story progresses.