A Bit Of A Ramble
Nov. 25th, 2024 08:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo Getting to be time to put up the Christmas tree, says Ailz.
Yes, I suppose it is. I've said it before but I'll say it again: this back part of the year seems to be flying past.
Did you see what I did there? I used a colon. I like colons. I like semi-colons too. I don't see why we should junk them. These funny little puncutaion marks- and all the others in the writerly arsenal- exist to render our written meaning more precise. If Cormac McCarthy doesn't/didn't want to use them that's his business and nobody else's.
I haven't read McCarthy, by the way. I don't like ulltra-violence, so I don't suppose I ever will. Oddly enough I don't mind it in the movies where the red stuff is clearly fake- and there's a balletic beauty to people or bits of people flying through the air; I adore Sam Peckinpah- and am quite partial to bit of Tarentino. But violence on the page is more real, more offensive because you have to supply the visuals yourself and what you can see in your head is always going to be nastier- and more personal- than anything in a filmmaker's bag of tricks....
Yes, I suppose it is. I've said it before but I'll say it again: this back part of the year seems to be flying past.
Did you see what I did there? I used a colon. I like colons. I like semi-colons too. I don't see why we should junk them. These funny little puncutaion marks- and all the others in the writerly arsenal- exist to render our written meaning more precise. If Cormac McCarthy doesn't/didn't want to use them that's his business and nobody else's.
I haven't read McCarthy, by the way. I don't like ulltra-violence, so I don't suppose I ever will. Oddly enough I don't mind it in the movies where the red stuff is clearly fake- and there's a balletic beauty to people or bits of people flying through the air; I adore Sam Peckinpah- and am quite partial to bit of Tarentino. But violence on the page is more real, more offensive because you have to supply the visuals yourself and what you can see in your head is always going to be nastier- and more personal- than anything in a filmmaker's bag of tricks....
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