Subject: Re: an endlesss anaconda of undifferentiated wordss
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Sat Jan 27 2001 - 17:06:35 GMT
'... is it just rule books written by others than yourself
that you would like to ignore? ...'
Exactly, Andy. NOW you have it. As my wife puts
it - at the same time discreetly shushing the assembly:
'The Fuhrer speaks....'
If you're simply going for 'understanding' why bother
to become a writer? Me, hunger, bad. Ah, food,
yumyum, please....
Thoughts & ideas & convictions are two a penny.
The difficult bit is laying them out so compellingly,
so lucidly, making them all so 'new' (as the Mad Ezra
demanded) - that the one who reads them will never
again forget them.
A painter must first accept the long discipline of handling
a drawing line before he may safely turn to the apparent
vagaries of cubism or abstraction. In the same way it seems
sadly to be the case that a writer too must scorch out all
lazinesses & self-indulgences before he can achieve that
limpid clarity that lodges in the brain forever. The rack
on which these heretics must be purged is the long distilled
set of rules which the best of us have accepted & refined
over the centuries. Only after that should one start fecking
around with funny fonts or whatever. Hopefully, the childish
inclination to do so will have passed by then anyway.
You don't think, do you, that you're going to become
Franscisco Goya (or even Pablo Picasso) by tossing a couple
of Campbell soup tins onto a bath towel & photographing
the result?
Scottie B.
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