Subject: Acronyms
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Thu Oct 12 2000 - 16:26:01 GMT
Maybe, Bruce, in my 'consistency' post I'll have partly
answered your question about the various shots that Salinger
takes at Seymour.
Although I think I'd better re-read Raise High the Roof Beam
& Seymour, An Introduction before embarking on a proper
consideration of their differences.
This is going to sound like more of my pedantry but I truly hate
acronyms. I always have to spell them out laboriously & even then,
as often as not, still can't work out what's referred to. Am I really
being Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm when I say it gives me a peculiar
pleasure to type the titles out in full? OK, I sometimes abbreviate
a bit - but I still feel an unnatural, respectful glow as I do so, like
tipping one's hat to a fellow slogger at the coal face in
acknowledgement
of his sweat & effort on my behalf. Damn it, if he can push himself
to those limits, will it cost me so much to type out the title the way
he first conceived it? What's the fucking hurry? Are your thoughts
so cascadingly rich they can only be captured by press-button shortcuts
Anyway, that's the only way to do it - laying the words in, one by one,
formally, carefully, lovingly. You'll never be happy any other way,
buddy.
Scottie B.
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