 You know how opposed your whole "third manner" of execution is to the literary ideals which animate my crude and Orson-like breast, mine being to say a thing in one sentence as straight and explicit as it can be made, and then to drop it forever ; yours...  The Quarterly Review - Page 26edited by - 1921Full view - About this book
 | Stephen Kern - 2003 - 418 pages
...Scene. In a letter of 1907 to Henry he wrote that his style was to avoid naming something straight out "but by dint of breathing and sighing all round and...reader who may have had a similar perception already . . . the illusion of a solid object, made . . . wholly out of impalpable materials, air, and the prismatic... | |
 | Richard Poirier - 2003 - 334 pages
...then to drop it forever; yours being to avoid naming it straight, but by dint of sighing and breathing all round and round it, to arouse in the reader who...similar perception already (Heaven help him if he hasn'tl) the illusion of a solid object, made (like the 'ghost' at the Polytechnic) wholly out of impalpable... | |
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