What books do you wish existed?
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
In graduate school I came across this amazing book that was an encyclopedia of rhetorical tropes. Listed in alphabetical order with their Greek names like catachresis and zeugma. Excitedly told friends. They were skeptical. Eventually realized I had dreamed it the night before.
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Replying to @Meaningness @sarahdoingthing
You might like Mark Forsyth’s “The Elements of Eloquence.” It’s even kind of funny.pic.twitter.com/cpNHOgWoNX
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The book’s first sentence: “Shakespeare was not a genius.”pic.twitter.com/s4wDtfuvKI
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“[…] The Romantics liked to believe that you could learn everything worth learning by gazing at a babbling mountain brook, or running barefoot through the fields, or contemplating a Grecian urn.”pic.twitter.com/5YgHVGSV9X
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Great excerpts, thank you!
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