I only argue with people I learn from and admire. wc
----- Original Message ---- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, November 17, 2012 4:53:33 PM Subject: Re: aesthetics Rant In a message dated 11/17/12 5:28:54 PM, [email protected] writes: > I write this stuff > off the cuff and on the fly and only notice the mistakes later. I do > love > words and language as much as I love colors and shapes. They're all so > wonderfully chewable. > I'll never tell a writer to forget about the mistakes, but it may be that what makes your stuff at its best so readable, so audible, is its "off the cuff and on the fly" style. Another word to convey why I enjoyed your rant so much may be this: It feels inhabited. Retain your good feeling, I may need it: I'm working on a highly unattractive attack on Barthes, the "structure" of which is a paragraph by paragraph savaging of his most famous single piece, "The Death of the Author". Oy.
