Subject: an endlesss anaconda of undifferentiated wordss
From: Jive Monkey (monkey_jive@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Jan 26 2001 - 14:27:57 GMT
I have struggled, my Scottish mentor and confidant, for some time with the
why of writing structure, and, probably for the same reason, the tendency of
intellectuals (self-styled or otherwise) to analyze works of literature to
death, and to nit-pick writers on form. It has bugged me for as long as I
can remember that there is a certain way (sometimes with a few alternate
choices) to present an essay, or a book, or whatever, and if you don't do it
that way there's someone with a rule book shouting "Digression!!" at you
until you want to strangle them. Personally I don't see how it matters so
much how someone writes something, as far as capitalization and indentation
is concerned, as long as it is understandable. I always use punctuation and
spacing, but mostly for the practicality of it. If I only wrote in a long
stream of letters, no one would bother to try to decipher it, since it
wouldn't be worth the trouble. But if I don't use capitalization, so what?
Why does anything HAVE to be capitalized? Why do we HAVE to indent
paragraphs? Because Professor Hochman says so? I don't care what he says
(just using your name as an example, Will, really), if I don't want to use
capitals, they're out the window. You're the one who told me recently to
"just write" and not worry about the rule book. Or is it just rule books
written by others than yourself that you would like to ignore?
Andy
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