Quoted in the Grove:
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
~George Orwell
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment, and education — sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street.
~E B White
Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling, and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.
~Bill Bryson
EndQuote:
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
~Joseph Conrad
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Posted from the Grove:
Something Different:
Double Split Experiment (26:45)
Consciousness and quantum mechanics explored in four vignettes. Four presenters tease secrets out of the condign mystery posing as quantum mechanics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9BDaFmGvyE
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Platform Favorites:
~Etta James: At Last (3:07)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q2rZb7E0EY
~Shivaree: Good Night Moon (4:04)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAHUq3rWt14
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Prewritten for Thurs (03/23) @6pm PT/9 ET is: periscope, tenor
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@Writers Platform
Prewritten: hipster, blanket
~Greymane: Bloody Beads
The hipsters down in Hollywood
Flamingos on the lawn
The homeless wrapped in blankets while the beachy babble on
A lonely girl with absent eyes begins another day
The shelter of her old disguise got lost along the way
A wealthy Catholic childhood
A fine suburban home
Morality misunderstood but polished up like chrome
She prides herself as upper class with sheltered disbelief
She hides beneath her sea of glass but shatters on the reef
Seclusion is her rosary she keeps in times of need
She sets her inner poseur free with every bloody bead
She hopes to find the promised land of decadent delight
From where she stands it’s out of hand with no escape in sight
She’ll find a smile now and then but cries alone out loud
She finally found herself again but lost her in the crowd
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~BarTalk: Empty Blanket Blues
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