Someone Reading A Book, in Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures, Mary Ruefle
We don't often watch people very closely when they read, though there are many famous paintings of women reading (none that I know of of men) in which a kind of quiet eroticism takes place, like that of nursing. Of course, it is we who are being nursed by the books, and then I think of the reader asleep, the open book on his or her chest.
Someone Reading A Book, in Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures, Mary Ruefle The frame through which I viewed the world changed too, with time. Greater than scene, I came to see, is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.
One Writer's Beginning, Eudora Welty Writers create "sentence perspective" when trying to decide how to begin the next sentence on the page or screen. The opening words of a sentence glance both backward and forward, establishing a relationship with what precedes and then bringing into view new information.
Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, Virginia Tufte A meander begins at one point and moves toward a final one, but with digressive loops.
Jane Alison, 6. Meanders in Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative Once I translated the dramatic arc to a wave, I began to think that energy in narrative might also flow in smaller waves, wavelets. Dispersed patterning, a sense of ripple or oscillation, little ups and downs, might be more true to human experience than a single crashing wave: I'm more likely to feel some tension, a small discovery, a tiny change, a relapse. The same epiphanies every week... [ellipsis in original]
Jane Alison, 5. Wavelets in Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative |
Categories |