From Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (and because I think [sic] is so ugly in the middle of such a lovely sentence, know that the quotation is correct and the misspelling is for a reason):
“The mute boy padded over and sat by the Abbess’s feet. Sunlite bent around the world, lending fragile color to wildflowers.”
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“”But I pray to the ideal…Early, so he knows I’m serious.”"
Posted in Uncategorized on August 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For whom should the author write?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Booth, ficiton, novel, rhetoric, write, writing on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From The Rhetoric of Fiction by Wayne C. Booth:
[I]f [the author] makes [his readers] well — that is, makes them see what they have never seen before, moves them into a new order of perception and experience altogether — he finds his reward in the peers he has created.
The Nature of Faith
Posted in Uncategorized on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Pope Gregory I (540-604 a.d.), from Moralia in Job 20:
Holy Writ by the manner of its speech transcends every science, because in one and the same sentence, while it describes a fact, it reveals a mystery.
