Posts in the category “writing”
a thousand thousand slimy things
He had a habit of starting enormous projects that he could not then finish.
Happy Birthday, James
On James Joyce
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.
George Santayana
“Then there is the other secret. There isn’t any symbolysm. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.”
Ernest Hemingway, 1952, in a letter to Bernard Berenson
Finding a Box of Family Letters
This poem is beautiful.
Wonderful Phrases
These all need to make a comeback
Grammar Matters (Still)
Recently I saw a commercial for Sylvan Learning Centers. This is a company that is selling products to help your children do well in school. The ad showed a teenage girl gabbing on the telephone. The voice-over said, “Sally sure can talk fast. We can help her read fast,” or something like that. Apparently grammar
Grammar Matters (Again)
Punctuation matters.