Monday, 16 May 2011

it will do just fine.

"grammar is a piano i play by ear. all i know about grammar is its power."
                                    -joan didion

grammar is one of those things we so often ignore without realizing our desperate dependence on it. without it words would free fall from our lips, pooling at our feet, lost forever to any significance. it somehow, almost divinely, gives structure to the otherwise chaotic and often abstract nature of our minds as humans. it is something that has evolved over time, allowing us to connect and fuse our ideas together, bringing forth collective products full of all the grace and humanity that defines us at our best as a species. some write for personal reasons, some to put forth their certain version of the world. for our purposes the simple accumulation of all those human cultural products we hear, see or feel and wish we could remember to write down or capture somehow will suffice. all and any things historical, literary or aesthetically pleasing will do just fine.


didion.

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