There's this word processor, AbiWord, that puts a green wriggly line
under what it considers to be poor and difficult to understand grammar
so I thought I would try it out with a passive verb followed by an
intransitive verb.
I wrote:
You are by me loved. To Sydney I flew.
Here, the only green wriggly line was under:- loved.
So I tried:
You are loved by me so it was that I did to Sydney fly to get right away
from you, daddy, you with your blue beard going bald like an eagle's
head on top of a bald vulture and in this day when it tramples my nerve
I got to yesterday back in time's mists of forgotten eros making no
mistake flying away to Sydney you are loved by me in time's mist
forgotten mystery.
Not a green line to be seen here, except for a short while before
changing its mind under:- ,daddy,... I assume from this it dislikes
Plath so I entered:
You do not do, you do not do, any more black shoe in which I have lived
like a foot for thirty years poor and white barely daring to breathe or
sneeze.
Yep! A solid green line from beginning to end! So I entered:
Should I now attempt lyrically misreading Bloom's anxiety of influence
fearing the influence of the green wriggly line not throwing me in with
Plath?
http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/bloom/excerpts/anxiety.html#anticrit
Here I managed to score a solid green line for everything except the
URL.
Oh, the anxiety of influence made with green wriggly lines!
Oh, -alone manages to score a green wriggly here.
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