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Friday, March 15, 2019

Nailing Down the Words †

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:40 pm

From a belated New York Times  obituary this evening —

"Ms. Iglauer died on Feb. 13 at a hospital
in Sechelt, British Columbia. She was 101."
[Link added.]

See also the previous two posts.

Unpunctuated

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:57 pm

out of the horn of dreams of my own life
I wake again into the laughing child

W. S. Merwin

Punctuated

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:00 pm

The poet W. S. Merwin reportedly died  today.

“Punctuation basically has to do with prose
and the printed word,” he said in the Paris Review
interview. “I came to feel that punctuation was like
nailing the words onto the page. Since I wanted
instead the movement and lightness of the spoken
word, one step toward that was to do away with
punctuation.”

— Margalit Fox in The New York Times

See as well Snakes (on a plane) in this  journal.

'Snakes on a Plane' cartoon

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