"And I'll Be Here Quite a While..."

[psalm_onethirtyone]

A sentence I love, and which I am about to chop out of my essay because it doesn't fit in:

"And is that salvation, or its allegorical rendering, really a kind of cosmic security blanket to reassure us that we won’t just vanish like spent stars when we die?"

Comments

[raanve]

"spent stars"

This made me starry-eyed with word-love.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

That was the part I liked. XD

Abby is always reminding me that you have to kill your darlings, but God! It is so torturous.

[raanve]

It's true, both the killing your darlings part and the torturous part!

But hey - at least you know that those lovely things can & do come out of your brain and on to the page. And there are always more to come.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Writing: If it's fun, you're doing it wrong. XD

Aww, thank you. ♥

[http://users.livejournal.com/_grayswandir_/]

Agh, I hate when that happens. :( And I too love the "vanish like spent stars" line.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Rewriting huge chunks of essays is always really hard for me, because a lot of the time the turns of phrase I like have to go and the stuff that's just kind of everyday is the stuff that stays. But I did get to keep the line In a scene shortly after this one, Lewis and Joy’s son Douglas sit in Lewis’ attic, nearby the wardrobe that doesn’t lead to Narnia, so that was nice.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_grayswandir_/]

Yeah, I often have the same problem. The first draft is all poetical/philosophical/ambiguous, and then I realize that, oh yeah, I'm supposed to be supporting my topic sentence here. :/ Agh.

nearby the wardrobe that doesn’t lead to Narnia

Nice. :) My Russian Lit professor has been talking to us a lot about Russian writers' love of "the telling of what is not" -- describing what something isn't in order to give a more vivid or poignant impression of it. I hadn't really thought about "telling what is not" as a technique before, but now I keep noticing cases, like this one, where it works really, really well.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Exactly! It's so frustrating to go back and make it academically correct.

Oooh, yes. I love that, and you're right, it does show up in Russian lit a lot. Mostly I just love the way Russian poetry sounds. I think it's my favourite kind of poetry.

[softerthansound.livejournal.com]

Love always.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Love thee.

[watchcry.livejournal.com]

It is a beautiful sentence :D

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

^^ Thank you!