Re: Buddy's house style
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Sat, 28 Feb 1998 11:03:55 -0700 (MST)
So tim (thanks for your help in advance on this one!), are you saying that
caps are an alternative italics for jds? will
On Sat, 28 Feb 1998, Tim O'Connor wrote:
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> > As for the Upper Case Words - aren't they just Buddy being
> > rather laboriously ironic ? The Primeval Mother, the Child Radio
> > Celebrity, & so on - aren't we meant to smile archly to each other
> > well aware that while the pitiful, yet dearly beloved, mass of
> > humanity may take these concepts at their face value, we of
> > the inner circle know better.
>
> Salinger wrote the flap copy on the hardcover editions of of F&Z and Raise
> High the Roofbeam. In one or the other, he indicates that he writes very
> slowly, but that something else will follow "soon or Soon." I never
> bothered to categorize it; it seemed simply perfect in a way I understand
> instinctively -- the way in one place (again, I don't have the books at
> hand and can't be more specific) Buddy talk about someone who Wants to
> Write. It has always seemed to me that this device of Capitalizing Certain
> Phrases is as much a narrative tic as putting italics on one SYL-lable of a
> word. I get a kick out of it; it is as memorable to me as the admonition
> in Strunk and White about using the phrase "the fact that."
>
> --tim
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