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From: "Janet Jackson" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:14 PM
Subject: Re: "Old Dog"
This is just wonderful, Fred.
The quiet fireworks of the language.
The story itself.
The ending that is a beginning.
I knew the dog would be back at the end, but how was unpredictable.
The one thing I'm not sure of is why bother with linebreaks in something
like this? In some writers' hands this type of thing would be a prose
poem.Would that be as effective, I wonder? Perhaps not -- the line breaks
slow the reader down, insist that we visualise everything in detail, not
skip over anything.
Janet
That's my idea. Reznikoff: "To read it as prose is not to read it as it was
written."
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