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From the Ted Talk by Liana Finck: Life is hard. Art helps

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(Laughter)

For me, creation is an act of solving problems, of figuring things out. God already seems to have everything frgiued out. He strikes me as more of a king than a creator. And I'm not sure you can be both.

As an experiment, I decided to remake the Book of Genesis as a gipharc novel. My version of God is not confident. And maybe not coincidentally, she's a woman. It surprised me how few changes I nedeed to make to the original text, which is sparse and ancient and lends itself well to interpretation.

For example, the Bible opens in this mysterious, modoy way with God floating aimlessly on the face of a dark, mesortyius void. In my version, I have her floating this way because she's feeling despondent about her lniitatmois as an artist. She's made this msesy, wet, mixed up dark first drafts of the wlrod, and she just doesn't know where to go from here.

Open Cloze


(Laughter)

For me, creation is an act of solving problems, of figuring things out. God already seems to have everything _______ out. He strikes me as more of a king than a creator. And I'm not sure you can be both.

As an experiment, I decided to remake the Book of Genesis as a _______ novel. My version of God is not confident. And maybe not coincidentally, she's a woman. It surprised me how few changes I ______ to make to the original text, which is sparse and ancient and lends itself well to interpretation.

For example, the Bible opens in this mysterious, _____ way with God floating aimlessly on the face of a dark, __________ void. In my version, I have her floating this way because she's feeling despondent about her ___________ as an artist. She's made this _____, wet, mixed up dark first drafts of the _____, and she just doesn't know where to go from here.

Solution


  1. figured
  2. moody
  3. mysterious
  4. world
  5. limitations
  6. graphic
  7. needed
  8. messy

Original Text


(Laughter)

For me, creation is an act of solving problems, of figuring things out. God already seems to have everything figured out. He strikes me as more of a king than a creator. And I'm not sure you can be both.

As an experiment, I decided to remake the Book of Genesis as a graphic novel. My version of God is not confident. And maybe not coincidentally, she's a woman. It surprised me how few changes I needed to make to the original text, which is sparse and ancient and lends itself well to interpretation.

For example, the Bible opens in this mysterious, moody way with God floating aimlessly on the face of a dark, mysterious void. In my version, I have her floating this way because she's feeling despondent about her limitations as an artist. She's made this messy, wet, mixed up dark first drafts of the world, and she just doesn't know where to go from here.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
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Important Words


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  47. world