Re: Phonemes

Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> I will continue to no longer read Heinlein.

I consider that a loss, but since you have such a distaste for him
after reading so little there'd be no point in your continuing to
subject yourself to him. I've been assured that my visceral hatred for
Henry James' bloated, ungrammatical [*], fly-buggering prose style has
led to a great loss in my life. Boo hoo for me, I'll stick to Wallace
Stevens.

[*] I once diagrammed sentences from "The Turn of the Screw" to find
out why they made me so mad, and it's because he kept piling on words
like he had some sort of neurological disorder that compelled him to
fill and overfill every conceivable theta role in his sentences until
the poor sodden things collapsed. It amazes me I love the opera so
much, but there you go: A good librettist can do wonders.

Mikael Thompson

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