I am still struggling with the default font reset that WordPress has offered me for the last few weeks. In order to have the font I prefer I have taken to writing a bit of nonsense at the end of each paragraph. Then I set my cursor at the beginning of the trash, hit return, [...]
Category: books
Learning how to write — sigh
The heroine of one of my Works-in-Progress has been stuck in a hayloft, in the middle of the night, for years. The reasons she is stuck there are legion, as I have slowly realized over those same years. A fiction book written today has to have a story arc. I'm betting that books always did, [...]
Ridiculous comparisons, slightly useful thoughts
Sometime in the past year I read several books from a modern author. The author is an immigrant, the books are award winning, the prose is exceptional, and the books are unrelentingly depressing. This person is supposedly writing about a particular immigrant experience, but the whole canon was utterly alien to me. I spent some [...]
More about Mary Evershed and Dante
I'm still reading Mary Evershed's own book about Dante and the early astronomers. She begins with a useful set of chapters explaining various theories and discussing Ptolemy. Part II is then her discussion of Dante. I'm not there yet. However, I did finish the biography that George sent me by Tracy Daugherty. Besides being interested [...]
Language
Tom Wolfe wrote a book called The Kingdom of Speech in 2016. I recently reread it. Its most basic premise is that what differentiates man from animal is the ability to speak. What differentiates man from animal is the ability to speak Tom Wolfe, The Kingdom of Speech He writes extensively about Daniel Everett, a [...]
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