[stylist] Quote to ponder

[Lynda Lambert]

Aine, this is perfect! What a great connection you have made here.
Lynda




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From: "Aine Kelly-Costello" <ainekc at gmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 11:57 AM
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> this reminds me of a W. H. Auden poem I studied last year called 'In 
> Memory of W. B. Yeats". The relevant stanza goes:
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> Now he is scattered among a hundred cities
> And wholly given over to unfamiliar affections;
> To find his happiness in another kind of wood
> And be punished under a foreign code of conscience.
> The words of a dead man
> Are modified in the guts of the living.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Lynda Lambert" <llambert at zoominternet.net>
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> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 5:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Quote to ponder
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>>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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