Hello Will ! I've missed you as a voice of reason in the sometimes murky bananafishpool, please enter play once more and use whatever case you wish! Eagerly writing lines from Sappho on your mirror, (: Camille verona_beach@geocities.com > Hello bananafish, I've just returned from months of travelling and as I > scanned the July archives I felt at home seeing Scottie defend proper > English...(though Italian is a far better language altogether!). > > Since ee, many fine writers have avoided punctuation. Cormac McCarthy > comes to mind, so does Irvine Welsch, and so do many fine poets writing > today. Sorry, but IMHO, many fine writers have "played" outside of the > grammar, punctuation and syntax we respect to great effect...however, to > quote that poet Bob Dylan, "To live outside the law you must be honest." > When good writers like Paul Auster in _Timbuktu_ for example (because > that's the book I've just read) use an occasional sentence fragment, I > don't call the grammar police but sense a rhythm of speech and thought > that is represented well in the writing...come on Scottie, I've been a > college professor and directed a writing program for Freshmen and I know > better than to be such a hard ass...lighten up dude, and of course, hello! > > will _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com