Comments on: Out Stealing Timber II http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/out-stealing-timber-ii/ Reflections of a working writer and reader Sat, 19 May 2012 08:23:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jim Murdoch http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/out-stealing-timber-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-110057 Jim Murdoch Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:16:55 +0000 http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/?p=1424#comment-110057 Now, the question is, and I have no answer, how to get your reader to think as deeply about your sentence as you have. Or do we really want them to? If they analysed everything we wrote into the ground then where would we be? Sometimes a cigar is simply a cigar. <strong>jb says</strong>: Hi Jim. What is nice about that is that you can smoke it or not. If you decide to leave it, perhaps further along the path you'll be reminded that it's still there, and you can reassess if you want it now, in the light of perhaps being a little bit wiser than you were to start with. Now, the question is, and I have no answer, how to get your reader to think as deeply about your sentence as you have. Or do we really want them to? If they analysed everything we wrote into the ground then where would we be? Sometimes a cigar is simply a cigar.

jb says: Hi Jim. What is nice about that is that you can smoke it or not. If you decide to leave it, perhaps further along the path you’ll be reminded that it’s still there, and you can reassess if you want it now, in the light of perhaps being a little bit wiser than you were to start with.

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