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posted by
Azur
on January 6, 2006 at 9:12 PM
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MayB
I loved your post! It's fun to read you writing like this...I write like it all the time. I discovered once that I loved to write in rap. I got inthehabitofwritingwithoutevenlifingmyfingersupoffofthekeysanditjustkindof turnedintoakindofrappingwritethatisdonetoarhythmwhenIreallygettogoin'. Ifyouletyourselfrelaxyou'llfind youcanactuallyreaditjustlikethecompletelymisspelledtestsyouseeinmagazines....thebrainadjusts. Anyway, it's all fun.....and creative....and a great way to rest your brain!
posted by
Krisles
on January 6, 2006 at 8:21 PM
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MayB
Groans quietly at the pun and writes "Thongs for the memory," MayB
posted by
johnmacnab
on January 6, 2006 at 2:40 PM
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Ya! You did!
(Sorry..just never get a chance to use the sheep!)
posted by
ginnieb
on January 6, 2006 at 2:34 PM
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Exactly so Blanche. I feel the same about Blogit too
I don't do spellchecks or write on word. I don't do any of what I do for my work
posted by
Azur
on January 6, 2006 at 12:37 PM
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I can see that
It's sort of akin to a scientist friend of mine hoeing his garden after work, just to get the knots out of his brain, from calculations and designing experiments, etc.
posted by
Blanche.
on January 6, 2006 at 12:33 PM
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BlancheDubois, I do this occasionally. It's healthy but it helps if ...
you can lose along with the punctuation the notion of worrying about making it easy for readers. This is always a good antidote to the highly-stylized and extremely labor intensive writing that I must do professionally
posted by
Azur
on January 6, 2006 at 12:32 PM
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Let yourself go Mayb and just go with that flow of stream of consciousness. You might surprise yourself and like it want to write like this more often just to get the whole creative flow going and then go back and stop and mine for gems later or if not it doesn't matter just to release some steam!
posted by
Blanche.
on January 6, 2006 at 12:21 PM
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Tapsel_T yes the style overwhelms the content
Telling that no-one comments on the content
posted by
Azur
on January 6, 2006 at 12:09 PM
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Brisbane thank you
glad you liked it
posted by
Azur
on January 6, 2006 at 12:06 PM
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Ca88andra yes that's funny. I'd have given up I think
posted by
Azur
on January 6, 2006 at 12:05 PM
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Have a nice weekend
posted by
malcolm
on January 6, 2006 at 12:04 PM
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Scriber, I recall your technicolored stream of consciousness raves
posted by
Azur
on January 6, 2006 at 12:04 PM
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MayB, I could write, but I sure would hate to read.
posted by
TAPS.
on January 6, 2006 at 12:01 PM
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Thanks JohnMcNab, that was called de-briefing I think
posted by
Azur
on January 6, 2006 at 12:01 PM
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Majroj, imagine if I did drink that coffee?
posted by
Azur
on January 6, 2006 at 12:00 PM
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For one if we lost punctuation you would be word smith not word.smith
posted by
Azur
on January 6, 2006 at 11:51 AM
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MayB,
I forgot the title of your post when I started that. My eyes hit the second paragraph first and I started reading, at which point I wondered if you'd gone mad.
Then, I looked up and sweet relief, there was the title..... How Would You Cope If You Were STRIPPED Of Punctuation.
posted by
word.smith
on January 6, 2006 at 11:28 AM
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Put down the triple latte and step awa-a-a-ay from the table.
posted by
majroj
on January 6, 2006 at 6:51 AM
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MayB
That was good fun to read MayB I think it was all a stream of self consciousness and exuberance go ahead and singe the keyboard.
posted by
johnmacnab
on January 6, 2006 at 6:28 AM
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Mayb--good to watch the stream flow now and then.
posted by
scriber
on January 6, 2006 at 6:10 AM
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I found it strange that I was automatically putting the punctuation in while I was reading!
posted by
Ca88andra
on January 6, 2006 at 3:31 AM
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i stayed with it
all very interesting
posted by
brisbane_artist
on January 5, 2006 at 11:14 PM
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Mongeaux excellent response
which goes for anyone who likes my writing i knew that you were referring to GS with regard to punctuation or the lack of it I dont know how I knew but that doesnt matter does it thankfully on a good day I scrub up better than that pic take care and thanks hey i could get used to this style and just spew out words
posted by
Azur
on January 5, 2006 at 10:40 PM
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MayB
I am sure there is no resemblance, I just meant Stein eschewed punctuation. Look at this excerpt from the
Daily Californian (April 16, 1935):
Miss Stein said she disliked literature that was static. She wants something that “moves on”. “So when I started to write I got rid of everything that stops anything — for instance punctuation. A comma stops action. Next I got rid of as many nouns as I could because they also break, that is, stop movement. And you have to get rid of adjectives because they stop the whole business.”
Her writing is horrible, but I like yours.
posted by
Mongeaux
on January 5, 2006 at 10:25 PM
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Ginnieb no it's just the punctuation that's been captured
but I defended the aspostrophes and possessives pretty well I think
posted by
Azur
on January 5, 2006 at 10:22 PM
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take a deep breath merryanne
posted by
Azur
on January 5, 2006 at 10:21 PM
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BlancheDubois it could be that the stream was very simplistic or that you
are very kind to give me the benefit of the doubt and no normally I don't inflict this on people but here we can do anything we want to do with reason cant we I mean can't we
posted by
Azur
on January 5, 2006 at 10:20 PM
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That cant be right
haha
posted by
Azur
on January 5, 2006 at 10:17 PM
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MayB
Then you'd be Gertrude Stein!
posted by
Mongeaux
on January 5, 2006 at 9:08 PM
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lol MayB
I am certainly riding with you! Way to go, and thanks for finally stopping so I can catch my breath!
posted by
MerryAnne
on January 5, 2006 at 9:06 PM
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Littlemspickles thanks for heads up the full stop is gone and i agree that
this kind of text is not the easiest on the eyes and makes the text lose shape
posted by
Azur
on January 5, 2006 at 6:54 PM
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Whoa MayB!
Is this really MayB? Or has someone taken her captive? ;)
posted by
ginnieb
on January 5, 2006 at 6:39 PM
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Mayb,
I do that when I'm really excited or upset: lose the punctuation, as it is my punctuation is pretty much when and where I feel it ought to be. I couldn't defend the position of a comma v. semicolon to save my soul. But I followed your stream of consciousness here pretty easily, which says something about me, because a lot of times, if I see a single block of text without punctuation or paragraphs, I will simply skip over it, as too much bother.
posted by
Blanche.
on January 5, 2006 at 6:21 PM
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ugh! I wouldn't cope!
I need those pauses for my eyes and to take a breath between ideas! Although was it intentional or unintentional that a full stop appeared at the end of the first paragraph?
posted by
littlemspickles
on January 5, 2006 at 6:18 PM
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