Re: art Art god God
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Tue, 03 Mar 1998 10:01:40 -0700 (MST)
What an innocent way to simplify...even down to the joke about not
capitalizing "creative writing" --In English studies when referring to
Creative Writing courses of programs, we do capitalize those C's and
W's but don't capitalize the "c" in composition which offers courses
equally worthy of the respect capitalizing creative writign gets...I
didn't think the issue was so much do writers or don't (in fact I
think comparing cohen and cummings points to how caps-lacks can be done
poorly or well) capitalize "with emotion" so much as what it means when
mr. salinger does it...I have to say this, I doubt mr. salinger is an
innocent bystander...great writers have "reasons" for their expression
that I think eryk sees into his holy Bicycle example, that is, if it
happens to be a Davega, will
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, eryk charles arthur salvaggio wrote:
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> He was an innocent bystander.
> He was an Innocent Bystander.
> He was an "Innocent Bystander."
> HE was an innocent bystander.
> He WAS an innocent bystander.
> He was an "innocent" bystander.
> He was an innocent "Bystander."
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> Look also at the work of Leonard Cohen. ee cummings. The conventions of
> prose are startlingly limiting. The use of He vs he, implicating "God"
> rather than "Man."
> The Bicycle is a more godly thing than the bicycle. He is a more godly
> person than he.
> Names are capitalized...why?
> Personally I feel everything should be capitalized and signatures should
> be lowercase. I should be lowercase and Fish should be capitalized.
> We knock the grammar deity on its head (Its Head) and keep Him pinned for
> good.
> Of course, "Grammar Police" is supposed to be capitalized, as all names
> are, but creative writing is not.
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> -ecas
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