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Tag: Chrestomathy

True But Shrill

Posted on Thursday, September 22, 2016Thursday, September 22, 2016 by Douglas Wilson - 48 comments

“The besetting sin of many cranky, conservative Christian types is their inability to make any good point whatever without sounding shrill. And the better the point, the shriller the making of it can be” (Writers to Read, p. 55).

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A Design Feature

Posted on Wednesday, September 21, 2016Wednesday, September 21, 2016 by Douglas Wilson

“There is a logical bedrock upon which the entire cosmos is built. We do not live in a house built on sand. Metaphor works for a reason. The walls in this house are straight for a reason. The corners go together and fit for a reason” (Writers to Read, p. 53).

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Clearer and Crisper

Posted on Tuesday, September 20, 2016Tuesday, September 20, 2016 by Douglas Wilson - 7 comments

“When we move from word to referent, we think we are leaping from crag to crag, across and abyss below. If we slip, we have had it. But this description is itself dependent upon a metaphor, as though meaning has to get increasingly smudgy every time we make a xerox copy of it. But suppose …

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What to Read First

Posted on Monday, September 19, 2016Monday, September 19, 2016 by Douglas Wilson

“Wodehouse was merciless to pretentiousness, and aspiring writers are the most pretentious fellows on the planet. So there’s that spiritual benefit” (Writers to Read, p. 50).

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Not a Quantitative Thing

Posted on Thursday, September 15, 2016Thursday, September 15, 2016 by Douglas Wilson - 1 comment

“True, there is an occasional stray hell or damn, and this is unfortunate, because many modern Christians do all their worldview analysis through the simple process of counting them” (Writers to Read, p. 48).

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Interested and Interesting

Posted on Friday, September 9, 2016Friday, September 9, 2016 by Douglas Wilson

“First-rate writers are more interested in what they are writing about than in the fact that they are writing about it. That is why they are interesting” (Writers to Read, p. 39).

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Not From Scratch

Posted on Thursday, September 8, 2016Thursday, September 8, 2016 by Douglas Wilson - 1 comment

“Those who want to be creative originals from scratch seldom are, and those who slavishly follow the recipe have a different problem, just as debilitating. Those who look carefully at the masters to learn and imitate soon find their own distinctive voice with their own contributions” (Writers to Read, p. 38).

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Secure or Less Insecure

Posted on Wednesday, September 7, 2016Wednesday, September 7, 2016 by Douglas Wilson

“The critic need not be secure in order to successfully market his wares. He just has to be less insecure than the artists he is criticizing, which, given the temperament of most cape and beret artists post-Rousseau, is not that hard” (Writers to Read, p. 37).

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Critical Authority

Posted on Wednesday, August 31, 2016Wednesday, August 31, 2016 by Douglas Wilson - 1 comment

“What is the authority of the critic, exactly? Where does it come from? A certain measure of it has to be the capacity to generate fear, which is probably why successful critics generally know how to slash as they write” (Writers to Read, p. 33).

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The Labyrinth of Brainy Parts

Posted on Friday, August 26, 2016Friday, August 26, 2016 by Douglas Wilson - 4 comments

“Serious thought takes the world as it actually is. This is quite different from taking it as ‘serious’ thinkers do, locked up as they are in the back recesses of their brainy parts” (Writers to Read, p. 28).

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