Begging The Breath Of The Dead

January 23, 2008 at 4:58 pm | Posted in writing | 10 Comments
Tags: craft, writing

Dedicated to the discovery of elegant constructions, sentences, mostly in the pluperfect since they were written before being read, which often refer to themselves in the mischievous third person.

Grammar is an aid to comprehension, an evolved codification of thought pauses, useful only as a convenience.

The days of begging the breath of the dead have come to end, my friends.

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Mischievous indeed. I firmly believe that each person takes their own dreams from words and that is half the beauty of this art we weave. Begging is such a desperate word. Perfect.

Comment by Narnie— January 23, 2008 #
and very true!

Comment by Sumedh— January 23, 2008 #
I’ve not begged breath all day long (so far) and as for from the dead, well, sufice to say it was a new years resolution of mine I have yet to break… of course it is the only one I have yet to break.

Comment by ozymandiaz— January 24, 2008 #
oh paul
punctuation is a big old bag of marbles when you think about it just for a
moment

they bounce on stone
shatter on concrete and siiiink in sssand

you know these things

Comment by beeskiffle— January 24, 2008 #
We are all strolling upon a graveyard of grammar and metaphor. . .

I wonder who the messiah is, and I wonder what the world will look like when he raises all this linguistic dust from the dead.

Comment by petersonion— January 24, 2008 #
Maybe you two should just have it out and arm wrestle.

Comment by amuirin— January 24, 2008 #
Who? Is there an arm wrestle somewhere? Cool, I will go watch, you have a new picture,

Comment by gingatao!— January 24, 2008 #
Are you and I riding the same wave or what, Paul? I notice that you wrote this a while ago but it’s at the top of your blog today, and I’m working on something at this moment that is all about the end of those kinds of days. Hears to the future mate. Cheers!

Comment by Alec Patric— August 27, 2009 #
Grammar as “an evolved codification of thought pauses” — I don’t think I’ve ever heard/read grammar defined so well.

Comment by Thomma Lyn— August 27, 2009 #
I am not a fan of grammar in general…:)…it is the traitorist bitch that always eludes me.

Comment by Queen of the Universe— August 27, 2009 #