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Post by Mia on Oct 12, 2016 14:33:02 GMT
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Post by DJW1066 on Oct 12, 2016 19:24:36 GMT
There's a pronounced absence of emoticons, acronyms, and links, together with the consistent use of full sentences. A pleasure to read even if the content may be mundane.
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Post by Mia on Oct 12, 2016 20:44:42 GMT
The better letters were probably included in the volumes "Complete Letters of T. S. Eliot" still ongoing.
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Post by vertolive on Mar 11, 2022 21:23:58 GMT
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is one of my favorite modern poems…
Just looking at the list in the link, he must have been a prolific writer of letters!
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Post by mrsduffy on Mar 27, 2022 23:30:08 GMT
There's a pronounced absence of emoticons, acronyms, and links, together with the consistent use of full sentences. A pleasure to read even if the content may be mundane. And I see nobody explained to him the necessity of liberally using exclamation points. Pity. He might have been a good writer had only he known.
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Post by mrsduffy on Mar 27, 2022 23:37:47 GMT
This is a happy coincidence. I just started reading Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. I browsed the collection and found that even his refusal letters are written with kindness and grace.
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Post by doultonmyra on Apr 8, 2022 20:59:11 GMT
This is a happy coincidence. I just started reading Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. I browsed the collection and found that even his refusal letters are written with kindness and grace. lithub.com/the-punctuation-marks-loved-and-hated-by-famous-writers/A different topic, but I wanted to point out to Mrs. Duffy that Queen Victoria was notorious for her promiscuous use of the punctuation point.
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Post by mrsduffy on Apr 10, 2022 23:55:14 GMT
This is a happy coincidence. I just started reading Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. I browsed the collection and found that even his refusal letters are written with kindness and grace. lithub.com/the-punctuation-marks-loved-and-hated-by-famous-writers/A different topic, but I wanted to point out to Mrs. Duffy that Queen Victoria was notorious for her promiscuous use of the punctuation point. Then exclamation points must be more respectable than I had supposed. Royal notoriety has certainly cast darker shadows than the inordinate love of such marks so I am not too badly shaken by this revelation but still, I hadn't suspected her of it. More upsetting is the disparaging of the semi-colon I find in the link you shared. I'm quite fond of the semi-colon, that useful little chap.
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Post by doultonmyra on Apr 11, 2022 17:49:39 GMT
Then exclamation points must be more respectable than I had supposed. Royal notoriety has certainly cast darker shadows than the inordinate love of such marks so I am not too badly shaken by this revelation but still, I hadn't suspected her of it. More upsetting is the disparaging of the semi-colon I find in the link you shared. I'm quite fond of the semi-colon, that useful little chap. I don't much like the semi-colon haters: they are mostly turgid men who think highly of themselves. The semi-colon lovers are better authors by far, in my opinion.
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