Stuff That I Write About Things

"She gasped and shut her eyes. No. No. It couldn't be any baby. She was not going to have something waiting in her to make her deader, she was not."

what's so bad abut having a kid? Sure they're messy and can't hold a conversation, but boy do they ever cheer me up when i'm down! There are so many awesome things about having a baby that Ruby completely overlooks. Instead of just making you deader, let's concentrate on all the neat things that babies can do! Like play with blocks, eat things, make snot bubbles, sleep a lot, wear one-piece pajamas, not sleep a lot, get pinched, throw up...
This list is endless ruby...endless...
And all you can think of is "makes you deader?" I think you need to sit down and make a pros and cons list, because babies are kick-ass.

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"...he had a look of composed dissatisfaction as if he understood life thoroughly."

This is one of those lines that really made me rethink the story. As soon as I thought I was figuring Mr. Shiflet out, O'Conner throws this monkey wrench at me. Is he a diety? Is he just really collected? Is he a spirit? Is he a skewed depiction of Christ? This line (along with many others) were not dropped into the text haphazardly. Gotta love those lines were placed here to pose open ended questions about pretty much everything in this story, and offer some religious/spiritual outlooks on everything. Who would have thought we'd see this in and O'Conner story...

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“On the page, punctuation performs its grammatical function, but in the mind of the reader it does more than that. It tells the reader how to hum the tune.”

I'm pretty sure this is the definition of punctuation for a creative writer. I am a strong believer that content and interpretation are equals in the process of creating a great piece of literature. You can write something that sounds amazing in your head, but unless you puctuate it right, the reader will not follow the same path as you,and much of the emotion and intrigue will be lost. Punctuation truely does put a tune to words. Words are merely our notes, puctuation is a our time signatures, rests, and tempos. You could put some amazing words on a piece of paper, but if there is no reason or rhyme to them, they will make no impact.

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"Although the American poet Robert Frost famously dismissed writing in free verse as analogous to 'playing tennis with the net down,' and critics have occasionally called for a return to metrics, free verse has become the most frequent poetic form in modern English poetry."

Free verse is exactly like playing tennis with the net down, because you make up your own rules, it's too easy, it doesn't make any sense, and you're wearing short shorts and a headband.
What happened to all those poetry rules?
Was the poetry guy like, "You know all those rules I made about writing words and stuff... well...uhhhh... we're not going to use those anymore. But what the heck, we'll call it poetry anyway..."?
I don't like playing games Mr. Poetry Rules Guy, you make your rules apply to everything, or nothing!

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