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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on July 18, 2012, 09:41:49 pm ---I agree that something's wrong with it. But Annie Proulx uses wrong sentences effectively. However, this one's confusing too.
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Well, I never said it wasn't effective. It's a very conversational way of writing. I merely wondered whether a writer would have been allowed to do something like that during the decades-long editorship of William Shawn.
And I have to wonder whether William Shawn would have felt that Annie Proulx was a New Yorker kind of writer.
Times do change.
serious crayons:
Personally, I love them. Sentence fragments.
Though I'm sure Mr. Shawn and I would disagree about any number of things.
TOoP/Bruce:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on May 29, 2012, 01:59:28 pm ---In the May 21 issue, I read the "Talk of the Town" mini profile of Dustin Lance Black (Milk). I was charmed to read there that according to the mother of author Pat Conroy, "All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: 'On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to Sister.'"
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Thanks, dude.
Reading that just sent Starbucks coffee right up the back of my nose... :o
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: TOoP/Bruce on July 19, 2012, 07:27:49 am ---Thanks, dude.
Reading that just sent Starbucks coffee right up the back of my nose... :o
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Don't thank me. Thank Pat Conroy's mother. ;D
I'm sure that Starbucks swill will clean out your nasal passages. ... 8)
--- Quote from: serious crayons on July 18, 2012, 11:41:28 pm ---Personally, I love them. Sentence fragments.
Though I'm sure Mr. Shawn and I would disagree about any number of things.
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They can be very effective. When used judiciously. ;D
Front-Ranger:
The New Yorker has caught the Bucolic Plague. I'm up to page 21 of the latest issue and I've read a blurb on what the drought is doing to the corn crop, ELizabeth Gilbert's publication of her grandmother's cookbook, and rhapsodies about food.
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