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"A story is made up of words and characters. Are the words well chosen and do the characters live? All the rest is literary gossip."

My six decade love affair with the English language compels me to offer a list of authors whose work meets my critical standards. The single criterion operant is the quality of the prose as composed by the writers. I have made no discrimination whatsoever as to subject matter, theme, or plot.

Therefore be warned!

A great many of the works here listed may involve themes or subjects repugnant to some readers. I can only advise that if a particular story cannot be stomached, go on to the next; you will find at least a few to be to your taste.

Friday, February 13, 2009

those quotes...

If the English language made any sense,
a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
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"I think it's adamantium. I think Don mugged
and killed Wolverine for it."
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The English language is a less
than logical construct.*
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*construct; n.
concise OED-def:linguistics...
a group of words forming a phrase..
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"...fiction does not come out of ideas.
The sources of Fiction are myriad and
complex--a character, a character in a
situation, a phrase, a scene, a setting, a smell--
anything at all but an idea attached
to an intention."
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this sentence evoked a yowl of laughter...
I couldn't help it...
Hey! Can you guess what story I was reading?
"This would all be a lot easier with a vehicle, but
no one dares to mention it, because Don would probably
have to kill them."
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posted by greshunkai @ 4:54 PM

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