[stylist] Quote to ponder

[Donna Hill]

Ooo! That's great. It reminds me of another quote I actually use in my book.
The kids are on a virtual tour of Westminster Abbey:
"This is good," said Tommy looking at the epitaph on T.S. Eliot's memorial,
"'the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of
the living.'"    
Donna
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From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Aine
Kelly-Costello
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:


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.
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From: "Lynda Lambert" <llambert at zoominternet.net>
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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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> From: "Donna Hill" <penatwork at epix.net>
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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
>>
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>> 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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