Poetry in the everyday
October 2nd 2006 06:30
I'm always surprised at how rhetoric isn’t something uncommon. How, in everyday conversation, e-mails, letters, in every online diary I’ve looked at (though these are never written as private diaries are written), there are little miracles of language or insight. One is raised to worship what has been published, and to hold these things up as unattainable ideals; but “published” means so little, and you only need the slightest of connections to the publishing industry to realize what a messy messy process it is, and how subjective or superficial the choice of what makes the cut. There’s so much talent outside what’s published, and so much lack of talent within it.
The same, of course, holds true for music.
I always have to remind myself that I shouldn’t expect rhetoric to be uncommon, that everyone has an investment in language. It may be a rarer skill, though, to be conscious of what works and what doesn’t; people don’t know the power in their own prose.
In fact, it's an extremely common phenomenon that people screw up when they’re trying to write well.
The same, of course, holds true for music.
I always have to remind myself that I shouldn’t expect rhetoric to be uncommon, that everyone has an investment in language. It may be a rarer skill, though, to be conscious of what works and what doesn’t; people don’t know the power in their own prose.
In fact, it's an extremely common phenomenon that people screw up when they’re trying to write well.
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