May 2012
2 posts
April 2012
10 posts
“If the word doesn’t exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn’t exist.”
– Charles Baudelaire
March 2012
9 posts
Orwell’s “dos” vs. Orwell’s “don’ts” →
austinkleon:
Shaun at Lists of Note recently posted George Orwell’s “Rules for Writers” from his incredible “Politics and the English Language”:
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
Never use a long word where a short one will do.
If it…
February 2012
13 posts
“waiting for that final moment when you say the things that I can’t say”
“I felt a certain reaction to what she said, but I am a slow-thinking man, and it...”
– “The Crack-Up” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Esquire, 1936
January 2012
3 posts
December 2011
10 posts
Michicant | Bon Iver
Passing out voluntarily is...
“She knew this type very well - the vague aspirations, the mental disorder, the...”
– E.M. Forster, Howards End
November 2011
30 posts
