Dylan Turnbull

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More useful might be the way of classical rhetoric: learn how a good sentence sounds and mimic it. Instead of draining some finite pool of sense, write in a way that engenders sense out of nothing. That is how Shakespeare learned to write at grammar school – rote learning the art of verbal ornament, getting to know words as sounds and shapes before they calcified into meaning. The rhetorician sees meaning as something reached by tasting and relishing the words, not by trying to make the writing invisible.
First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life.
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