[stylist] Quote to ponder

Thu Feb 7 17:06:13 UTC 2013

Slightly different topic, but this is also reminding me of a lesson in 
spanish class on punctuation the other day. Spanish, in using "no" to mean 
both "no" and "does not" (among other examples) gives ample opportunity for 
misinterpretation or ambiguity if commas are left out or ignored
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lynda Lambert" <llambert at zoominternet.net>
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>
> The interesting thing is that no two of us even read the work in the same 
> way.
> For example, in my classroom, I would have two or three students read the 
> same poem aloud. Each student pronounces words differently, breathes in a 
> different place in the text, emphasized different words that another 
> person does, and even reads the sentences with different inflections on 
> the punctuation. Meaning becomes very different from one person's reading 
> than the next one. It is very clear when this is done in the classroom. We 
> did this in graduate school sitting around a table together - and we often 
> would spend an entire 3 hour class on only the discussion of one poem. 
> Each of us brought different life experiences to the table, so each had a 
> piece of the puzzle that none of us could construct alone. Together, we 
> form meaning.
> Lynda
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Robert Leslie Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net>
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> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 11:47 AM
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>
>> What do they say about a picture? "Worth a thousand words." And I'm 
>> thinking
>> the words used by one person will not be the same used by the next 
>> person,
>> and the next, and so on! So yeah, my stuff is my filter.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lynda 
>> Lambert
>> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 10:33 AM
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>> Subject: Re: [stylist] Quote to ponder
>>
>> I think it is impossible that a reader cannot bring their "stuff" to the
>> work. We create it, and then it is sent out into the world. And, god 
>> knows
>> what happens to it after that!  lol   We all bring our own history to
>> everything we see, hear, touch, smell, etc.  That is why contemporary art
>> and writing is such a barrier to the reader - it takes a lot of knowledge
>> and "history" to even begin to work through the difficult things.
>> Lynda
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>>
>> Lynda ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Donna Hill" <penatwork at epix.net>
>> To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 10:47 AM
>> Subject: Re: [stylist] Quote to ponder
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>>
>>> Bridgit,
>>> Is he saying that the illusion is the writer's belief that they are
>>> communicating "x" and that the reader, bringing to each work their own
>>> life
>>> experiences, gleens "y?" I think that's true, but I still believe in
>>> trying
>>> to communicate precisely whatever I'm trying to get across, but I enjoy
>>> the
>>> fact that readers get things out of it that I didn't think I was
>>> communicating -- hopefully tangential and not diametrically opposite.
>>> *grin*
>>> Donna
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Bridgit
>>> Pollpeter
>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 2:13 PM
>>> To: stylist at nfbnet.org
>>> Subject: [stylist] Quote to ponder
>>>
>>> Thought I'd post another quote to spark some discussion. This comes from
>>> one
>>> of the writers I featured in the creative nonfiction lesson.
>>>
>>> "Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize its 
>>> just
>>> an
>>> illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it."
>>> David Sedaris
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter, editor, Slate & Style Read my blog at:
>>> http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/
>>>
>>> "If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can 
>>> satisfy,
>>> we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world."
>>> C. S. Lewis
>>>
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