Re: writing with Capital Letters
Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Sun, 01 Mar 1998 14:29:49 -0500
> My
> take on the use of capital letters (to write about things such as those
> who are Friendly to Bears and about Piglet doing a Noble Thing even though
> he is a Very Small Animal ...) is that it lends the word or phrase a
> certain "thing-ness," makes that particular word more of the epitome of
> what it represents. So that Piglet is now not just any old small animal,
> but rather a Small Animal to represent all Small Animals. And when Buddy
> writes about Composing Hours, they are not just the hours that he happens
> to be writing, but they represent all Hours during which he must Write.
> I'm sure there are more possible interpretations of the habit - this is
> just one of many.
Yes! This is exactly what I meant; I confess <cringe> that I've never read
Winnie the Pooh.... But that business of "thing-ness" is precisely what I
was Trying To Articulate.
--tim