Surfeit

After many years of pouring the ideas of others into my tired little brain they have begun to overflow. This is the catch basin to hold those ideas. During their stay in my skull they may have fused and combined with each other to form something new and interesting or they may just be a garbled mess. We can only hope for the former.

Sunday, October 29, 2006

Revising

I once heard from a teacher in High School that Horace recommended that once you have written something, put it a drawer. After a period of time, take it out and read it again. This helps you look at your writing with a fresh eye and notice the mistakes in composition, grammar and spelling.

Looking at my previous posts now after many months, I see many errors of all types. I started to make changes, but it is pointless to re-edit the form of what contains so little content. I will focus on putting new material up instead of revising old.

In order to pretend to be educated and show off the supposed knowledge I have I could throw in a reference to Lot's Wife or to be non-fundamentalist, Orpheus. I could have done that but I will not. The Horace reference was bad enough. I had to google Horace to make sure I had it right. When I did, I found out he said to not re-read your writing for NINE years. Everyone would probably be better off if I did not put my writing out there for nine more years but I have to do something.

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