landor-critic

January 30, 2025

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With much ado you fail to tell
The requisites for writing well;
But what bad writing is, you quite
Have proved by every line you write.

Thought:

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You know, in the Scriptures it says, “In the beginning was the word.” No! In the beginning was emotion. The Word came later, replacing emotion like trot replaced gallop, while the natural law of the horse is gallop; it is forced to break into trot. Man was removed from emotional poetry and pushed into dialectics, in other words, splat- tering, isn’t that so?

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline