Reader, via email: The Sympathizer, page 15...Unlike Man and I.....???? Do you know the difference between ME and I? I mean, the paragraph before, why not say ‘Bon poured I a drink as soon as me sat down’??? Me: Thanks. Now you write a novel.
You may perhaps enjoy reading Somerset Maugham's rueful account of a detailed critique of his writing prepared for him by a newly-minted (and very youthful) stenographer, who naively mistook the duties he had hired her to discharge. It too was filled with trivial complaints.
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It has always impressed me that F Scott Fitzgerald's manuscripts were invariably riddled with the most embarrassing and hilarious of spelling errors. Even his most celebrated works reached his editor in a condition no high school teacher would countenance in her students.
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Any idiot can correct errors of spelling, grammar, and usage. It takes a very rare sort of poet, however, to compose prose that lingers in the minds of readers for decades, and somehow rings truer even than their own lived experience.
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