RE: what is your fish?

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From: James Rovira

I think Fish's grammatical attack was right on target -- we use words
without even thinking about what they mean, and I think that's a bad
thing. We take for granted people should care about our opinions
without giving them reason to do so...

I picture Stanley running out, bouncing up from a spring loaded Merriam
Webster, flipping two forward turns with a pike at the end, he lands in a
big round target shaped net. The crowd goes wild, the judges, with
jack-o-lantern grins, hold up their black font on white card '10's'.

What did that mean?

  ...If you care about reading
communities,...

I'll see you at that library bake sale.

...(unless you're James Joyce and unless you happen to
be writing _Finnegans Wake_).

Jim, what's the fascination with death?

Daniel

PS: Do you guys hold this stuff (rigorous analysis of language, meaning etc)
in your conscious mind when you are creatively writing? And if so, to what
extent? Seriously interested.
 
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Received on Tue Dec 17 14:55:37 2002