Monday Writing Motivation: Thinking about walking in Venice
I’d like today to write a disquisition on walking. The subject might fascinate me because I am myself so bad at it. Whatever the reason, though, I’m sitting now on […]
Monday Writing Motivation: These are a few of our favourite words…
We climb the stairs to the first floor of Ca’della Corte and mill about around the long dining room table. Liza says, out of the blue: “Persiflage…” “Persiflage?” I say. […]
Monday Motivation: We are the word-wielders
I’m still entangled in the wilds of The Magic Mountain. I learned during a break in my hectic reading schedule that a lexical analysis of the original German version of […]
Monday Motivation: Accuracy and economy = beauty
There is a kind of beauty in clarity and accuracy that can’t be achieved by even the most skillful deployment of rhetoric. I’ve been reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier […]
