A eulogy to Strunk and White
Jun. 19th, 2007 04:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ridiculous_dog_ladyI picked up a literary journal for the first time in years.
They came into my possession as a by product of trolling for books to sell online. I picked a copy of AGNI (the Boston University Literary Magazine)and a couple copies of The New England Review from, of all places, the Brookfield Municipal Transfer Station. (The collection of guys that run the place are a topic for another day -- lets say that there is nothing so refreshing as true Yankee red-necks.)
Either I am growing both culturally and literally illiterate, as well as impatient at 35 or most of it so intentionally obfuscates that it is irredeemably obtuse. (Yea-gads, I've been infected)
Perhaps I just lack self control. I required three revisions of the above non-parenthetical sentance not to use the terms "drivel" and "crap".
Fortunately for me Word does know how to spell obfuscate, because I could not.
For anyone that needs a pick-me-up, check out the demotivators at:
http://despair.com/viewall.html
They came into my possession as a by product of trolling for books to sell online. I picked a copy of AGNI (the Boston University Literary Magazine)and a couple copies of The New England Review from, of all places, the Brookfield Municipal Transfer Station. (The collection of guys that run the place are a topic for another day -- lets say that there is nothing so refreshing as true Yankee red-necks.)
Either I am growing both culturally and literally illiterate, as well as impatient at 35 or most of it so intentionally obfuscates that it is irredeemably obtuse. (Yea-gads, I've been infected)
Perhaps I just lack self control. I required three revisions of the above non-parenthetical sentance not to use the terms "drivel" and "crap".
Fortunately for me Word does know how to spell obfuscate, because I could not.
For anyone that needs a pick-me-up, check out the demotivators at:
http://despair.com/viewall.html
