Re: Phonemes

mithomps@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> 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.

For the third time: I read everything up to the first hundred or so
pages of The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. Maybe I simply outgrew SF.

> [*] 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.

Mrs. Piper insists the text is James's.

Maybe the problem is conceptualizing in terms of theta-roles.

We were required to read Portrait of a Lady in 11th grade, and I never
opened another James since.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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