[ExI] quote of the day

[William Flynn Wallace]

This reminds of a book on writing I read a while back. In a section on
choosing the right word, the author recommending sometimes one would do
better to find the wrong word, even the absolutely wrong word, for a given
passage and see what happens.

Regards,

Dan

What is very likely to happen is that the reader will remember that passage
more than anything else in the writing, because it makes it stand out.
What that has to do with Davies, I dunno. bill w

On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 7:23 PM, Dan TheBookMan <danust2012 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 9:44 AM, William Flynn Wallace <
> foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > “Aha, you are an advocate of useful knowledge”
> >
> > “Certainly”
> >
> > “You say that a man’s first job is to earn a living, and that the first
> task of education
> > is to equip him for that job?”
> >
> > “Of course.”
> >
> > “Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental
> > Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work
> > efficiently, if narrowly and with no extra bits or useless parts.  I
> like the
> > mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless
> but
> > fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable
> > amount of healthy dirt.  Shake the machine and it goes out of order;
> shake
> > the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position.”
> >
> > Robertson Davies, in the Salterton trilogy
>
> This reminds of a book on writing I read a while back. In a section on
> choosing the right word, the author recommending sometimes one would do
> better to find the wrong word, even the absolutely wrong word, for a given
> passage and see what happens.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
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