![]() ![]() ![]() “In any event, and after many years of scribble and erasure, I came finally to the belief that sentence were containers of consciousness, that they were directly thought itself, which is one thing that goes on in consciousness, but they were other things as well in more devious, indirect ways.” They are not simply the sum of what the words in them say how they sound, what they evoke, their rhythms carry all the overtones and undertones that turn a sequence of words into meaning. They are, he argues (rightly, IMHO) the irreducible units of both sense and the sensibility of any text. The collection it’s in has been glaring at me from the shelf for a couple of years now, and given my sense that I haven’t fully cracked my own mss’s form yet, it just seemed like the thing to grab. Read William Gass’s essay “Finding a Form” as my priming text. ![]()
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