Reflections of a working writer and reader
Nietzsche laments, in Beyond Good and Evil: "What a torment books written in German are for him who has a third ear." If prose is to be as well written as poetry--the old modernist hope--novelists and readers must develop their own third ears. We have to read musically, testing the precision and rhythm of a sentence, listening for the almost inaudible rustle of historical association clinging to the hems of modern words, attending to patterns, repetitions, echoes, deciding why one metaphor is successful and another is not, judging how the perfect placement of the right verb or adjective seals a sentence with mathematical finality. James Wood in How Fiction Works
I know it’s boring but this blog is broken at the moment. I’m working on it and it should look fine from your end, but I don’t have constant access at my end. It might be that, if you post a comment, I won’t see it immediately and it may hang around in cyberspace for a while before it gets approval.
In the meantime just hang-in there and we’ll have it all up and running again ASAP.
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my sympathies! Sometimes along with a new look comes a little discomfort — until things get broken in. (Yes, I’m thinking about new shoes, but I suspect the same principle applies to blogs.)
jb says: It seems to be a little better now. I’m going to give it an early night and see how it feels in the morning. (Yes, I’m thinking about a puppy, but I suspect the same principle applies to shoes).