50 Of The Most Beautiful Sentences In Literature. 2. “In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.” —Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 3. “She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.” 4. 6. 7. 8. 10. 11. 12. 14. 15. 16. 18. 19. 20. 22. 23. 24. 26. 27. 28. 30. 31. 32. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 41. 42. 43. 45. 46. 47. 49. 50. Source: “51 Of The Most Beautiful Sentences In Literature,” from buzzfeed.com, by Jennifer Schaffer. Paraprosdokian. Etymology[edit] "Paraprosdokian" comes from Greek "παρά", meaning "against" and "προσδοκία", meaning "expectation". The term "prosdokia" ("expectation") occurs with the preposition "para" in Greek rhetorical writers of the 1st century BCE and the 1st and 2nd centuries CE, with the meaning "contrary to expectation" or "unexpectedly.
"[2][3][4][5] These four sources are cited under "prosdokia" in Liddell-Scott-Jones, Greek Lexicon.[6] Canadian linguist and etymology author William Gordon Casselman argues that, while the word is now in wide circulation, "paraprosdokian" (or "paraprosdokia") is not a term of classical (or medieval) Greek or Latin rhetoric, but a late 20th-century neologism, citing the fact that the word does not yet appear in the Oxford English Dictionary as evidence of its late coinage.[7][8] However, the word appeared in print as early as 1891 in a humorous article in Punch magazine.[9] Examples[edit] "He was at his best when the going was good.
" See also[edit] A Beginner’s Guide to Invisibility - The New Yorker. It is possible, according to many sources, to become invisible, but you must be patient, methodical, and willing to eat almost anything. One characteristic spell, recorded by the British polymath John Aubrey around 1680, instructs you to begin by acquiring the severed head of a man who has committed suicide. You then bury the head, together with seven black beans, on a Wednesday morning before sunrise, and water the ground for seven days with fine brandy.
On the eighth day, the beans will sprout, whereupon you must persuade a little girl to pick and shell them. Pop one into your mouth, and you will turn invisible. If you don’t have eight days to wait, you can, instead, gather water from a fountain exactly at midnight (invisibility spells are fetishistic about time management), bring it to a boil, and drop in a live black cat. I don’t recommend trying these spells. These strategies differ so dramatically that they raise an obvious question: just what is invisibility? Beige sandals. Nostalgic Nightclub. Obama’s ISIS Strategy Is Weak. Google+ November 17 Issue Subscribe Print Subscribe Digital Gift: NR Print Gift: NR / Digital NRO Header Navigation Secondary NRO Navigation Kevin D. Undo NR Staff - Join the National Review Wine Club and Save $100 — And Get Two Free B… Andrew Stuttaford - "Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder" Jay Nordlinger - Race Trumps Gender Money Morning Billionaires Horde Cash, CIA Economist Knows WhyMoney Morning Better by the Minute | Instaflex Supplement This Shocking Discovery Shows How To Relieve Knee & Shoulder PainBetter by the Minute | Instaflex Supplement by Taboolaby Taboola Sponsored LinksSponsored Links Promoted LinksPromoted Links Close September 15, 2014 1:00 PM Obama’s ISIS Strategy Is Weak But at least he’s promising to bomb these villains.
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He blogs about filmmaking at his website NoamKroll.com, where this post originally appeared. The logline is truly an art form of its own. "The logline is just as important as a creative tool as it is as a vehicle to spark the interest of others. " While it's critical to have a good logline so that you can concisely explain your film on paper, it works just as well verbally. While the logline can serve you well both in written form and verbal form by getting the attention of producers, readers, agents, and anyone else you may want to interest -- you also need to take into account the benefit a strong logline has on yourself as a writer. Johnson v. Johnson :: 1995 :: Rhode Island Supreme Court Decisions :: Rhode Island Case Law. 654 A.2d 1212 (1995) Carole J. JOHNSON v. Clifford W. JOHNSON, Jr.
No. 92-576-Appeal. Supreme Court of Rhode Island. February 23, 1995. *1213 J. Joseph Keough, Keough & Gearon, Pawtucket, for defendant. WEISBERGER, Acting Chief Justice. This case comes before us on appeal by the defendant, Clifford W. On the evening of August 29, 1986, plaintiff entered Twin Oaks Restaurant in Cranston and proceeded to walk to the podium.
The sole issue that has been preserved on appeal is the denial of defendant's motion for a new trial. In considering this question, it is helpful to note the specific findings of fact made by the trial justice in his review of the evidence and in the exercise of his independent judgment. "Now, in this case, the charge made against the [d]efendant was that he had slandered Mrs. That summary though accurate at the time has been further modified and explicated by a more recent case, Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. v. Factually, this is indeed a close and difficult case. The art of empathy: According to new study, literature makes you care about others. Reading is good for you, we have long been told, and a new study by researchers at Ohio State describes one of the many benefits of reading: It makes you identify with people who are not like yourself and, consequently, care for them.
(Image via Lenny Likes Libraries) The escaped slave Sethe in Toni Morrison's "Beloved"; the ghettoized immigrants in Henry Roth's "Call it Sleep" -- when you read about them, you become these imaginary individuals in a process the OSU researchers call "experience-taking. " The OSU findings, which appear in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology indicate that readers of fiction "found themselves feeling the emotions, thoughts, beliefs and internal responses of one of the characters as if they were their own. " For example, researchers discovered that subjects who read a first-person account of someone going to vote were more likely to vote themselves, as opposed to those who read a more distanced third-person narrative of the same experience. Tags: Literary anti-intellectualism on reddit : books. What book left you feeling amazing and on top of the world? : books.
Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling. You think English is easy? : funny. Mark Twain’s 20 Quotes on Writing | azevedo's reviews. 3.5K Flares Twitter 5 Facebook 1.6K Pin It Share 75 75 Reddit 1.8K Google+ 31 3.5K Flares × 1. “I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can’t conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.” 2. ”A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.” 3. ”One should never use exclamation points in writing. 4. ”The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. 5. ”To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. 7. ”I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. 8. ”There are some books that refuse to be written.
Greatest short stories? : books. Hemingway on writing: 7 quotes all book lovers should read. Ernest Hemingway once said “All American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.” While many have challenged Ernest’s view, there’s no denying that over a career spanning more than three decades, Papa became a master of his craft. In his lifetime, he published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. His last major work of fiction, The Old Man and the Sea won him the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to the awarding of him the Nobel Prize in Literature a year later. 32 Books That Will Actually Change Your Life. Doris Lessing and the Perils of the Pseudonymous Novel.
In the early nineteen-eighties, a literary agent in London sent the manuscript of a first novel titled “The Diary of a Good Neighbour,” by a certain Jane Somers, to the publishing company Jonathan Cape. Cape still maintained the old-fashioned practice of employing in-house readers, and the manuscript duly appeared in their office, on the shelf reserved for agented material, guaranteeing it prompt and serious attention. Of the half-dozen or so men and women paid to sit around in armchairs perusing new manuscripts, the one who plucked it from the shelf happened to be the youngest, an aspiring poet and fiction writer of twenty-three.
He didn’t think much of it, and wrote a report saying so. After a brief discussion at the weekly editorial meeting, the book was turned down. Some time later, it was revealed that “Jane Somers” was, in fact, Doris Lessing. Reader, I was that reader. It has taken me thirty years to recognize the magnitude of my loss. A few weeks ago, I was staying in Brooklyn. Top Books Derived from 11 "Top 100" Lists : books. Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling. These rules were originally tweeted by Emma Coats, Pixar’s Story Artist. Number 9 on the list – When you’re stuck, make a list of what wouldn’t happen next – is a great one and can apply to writers in all genres. You admire a character for trying more than for their successes.You gotta keep in mind what’s interesting to you as an audience, not what’s fun to do as a writer.
They can be very different.Trying for theme is important, but you won’t see what the story is actually about til you’re at the end of it. Now rewrite.Once upon a time there was ___. Every day, ___. One day ___. - StumbleUpon. 40 websites that will make you cleverer right now. The indexed web contains an incredible 14 billion pages. But only a tiny fraction help you improve your brain power. Here are 40 of the best. whizzpast.com – Learn about our awe inspiring past all in one wonderful place. khanacademy.org – Watch thousands of micro-lectures on topics ranging from history and medicine to chemistry and computer science. freerice.com – Help end world hunger by correctly answering multiple-choice quizzes on a wide variety of subjects. artofmanliness.com – Blog/site dedicated to all things manly, great for learning life skills and good insights. unplugthetv.com – Randomly selects an educational video for you to watch. coursera.org – An educational site that works with universities to get their courses on the Internet, free for you to use. mentalfloss.com – Interesting articles guaranteed to make you smile and get you thinking. feelgoodwardrobe.com – Find out how the world of fashion really works and what you can do to combat it. lifehacker.com – Learn to hack life!
The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations is a descriptive list which was created by Georges Polti to categorize every dramatic situation that might occur in a story or performance. To do this Polti analyzed classical Greek texts, plus classical and contemporaneous French works. He also analyzed a handful of non-French authors. In his introduction, Polti claims to be continuing the work of Carlo Gozzi, who also identified 36 situations.
Publication history[edit] “Gozzi maintained that there can be but thirty-six tragic situations. This list was published in a book of the same name, which contains extended explanations and examples. The list is popularized as an aid for writers, but it is also used by dramatists, storytellers and many others. The 36 situations[edit] Each situation is stated, then followed by the necessary elements for each situation and a brief description. See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Anatole France. Anatole France (pronounced: [anatɔl fʁɑ̃s]; born François-Anatole Thibault,[1] [frɑ̃swa anatɔl tibo]; 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie française, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in recognition of his literary achievements.
France is also widely believed to be the model for narrator Marcel's literary idol Bergotte in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.[2] Early years[edit] The son of a bookseller, France spent most of his life around books. Literary career[edit] Anatole France began his career as a poet and a journalist. France's home, 5 Villa Said, 1894–1924 France took an important part in the Dreyfus Affair.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921. Private life[edit] Reputation[edit] Works[edit] Poetry[edit] Joseph Campbell. Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work is vast, covering many aspects of the human experience. His philosophy is often summarized by his phrase: "Follow your bliss. "[1] Life[edit] Background[edit] Joseph Campbell was born and raised in White Plains, New York[2] in an upper-middle-class Irish Catholic family.
While at Dartmouth College he studied biology and mathematics, but decided that he preferred the humanities. Europe[edit] While in Europe, he was highly influenced by the period of the Lost Generation, a time of enormous intellectual and artistic innovation. It was in this climate that Campbell was also introduced to the work of Thomas Mann, who was to prove equally influential upon his life and ideas. Great Depression[edit] Another dissident member of Freud's circle to influence Campbell was Wilhelm Stekel (1868–1939). Death[edit] Philip Roth. How to get from an idea to a book.
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