Living by Fiction
Author:Dillard, Annie [Dillard, Annie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2009-10-13T00:00:00+00:00
The sentences of this prose may be very long, heavily punctuated throughout, and welded together with semicolons. Its lexicon is enormously wide, its spheres of reference global. We think of it as decorous, but actually it is not. Those old men in frock coats were after power, and power they got, by going for the throat. (Far more decorous is plain writing, the prose of Hemingway, Chekhov, and other stylists in shirts, who carefully limit their descriptions to matters at hand, and who produce a prose purified by its submission to the world.) There is nothing decorous about calling attention to yourself:
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