When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better And/Or Worse
Author:Ben Yagoda
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Non-fiction
ISBN: 9780767920780
Publisher: Broadway Books
Published: 2007-01-02T00:00:00+00:00
CHAPTER VI
N.
Generally speaking, things once they are named the name does not go on doing anything to them and so why write in nouns. Nouns are the name of anything and just naming names is alright when you want to call a roll but is it any good for anything else. To be sure in many places in Europe as in America they do like to call rolls…. Nouns as I say even by definitionare completely not interesting.
—Gertrude Stein, “Lectures in America”
HAMLET: There are more things in Heaven and
earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
—Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5
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