Finely Crafted Sentences
I am on my second cup of tea and began the afternoon with a piece of bread with some strawberry jam and a fair amount of Dorothy Parker. As a result, I've been a snide remark mood for the past couple of hours. Well, snide remark is underselling Ms. Parker's work, although it isn't underselling my mood.
John's friends seem to think its appropriate to message my MSN account and ask for him. You know, my account, my computer I'm obviously sitting here waiting for them to message in order to play secretary for my boyfriend. I'm obviously not working on my Welsh vocabulary (I will post a This Week in Welsh soon) or working on my Research Proposal or resume. Heaven forbid. Although, I really shouldn't be too hard on them. They all have issues.
I love tea. Its amazing.
I've been reading that Fracine Prose book and we moved from "Close Reading" to "Sentences", which she has been illuminating with examples of great sentences. Its been so incredible. It made reading Dorothy Parker this afternoon absolute delight. This will seem an obvious observation, but a huge difference between spoken and written language is one's ability to rethink, edit, correct and proof something once it is written down. And, this difference is what makes writing, or at least some people's writing, so good. Because they give what they have on the page so much thought and they add or subtract until each word is in its place and each sentence, each complete thought is expressed effectively, evocatively. (Not here, of course. While I admit that once something is here it is often in its second or third draft, it has most certainly not been given the time or the attention that Proust would have given to train schedules. This may be one of the drawbacks with blogs, that their content is not always given the consideration that it deserves prior to becoming part of the public discourse. However, this outside the scope of this discussion.)
