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Valves, Valvoline, and singing circuits

I borrowed Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk from the library. “I want to learn more about our next president,” I told the librarian. She laughed.

#reading #writing

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Dec 23, 2024

Valves, Valvoline, and singing circuits

Reading and writing in the dark

From E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr.

#fiction #reading #writing

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Aug 15, 2023

Reading and writing in the dark

Less reading, more “writing”

To my mind, reading and writing are just things one does in a college class. As students’ language skills decline, assigning less reading and more “writing” solves nothing.

#academia #college #reading #writing

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Feb 1, 2019

Less reading, more “writing”

“Slow Reading”

Richard Lanham: “Every course in composition ought to be a course in Slow Reading.”

#reading #teaching #writing

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Oct 19, 2018

“Slow Reading”

Whose whom?

I’d bet a Happy Meal that Trump didn’t write this statement.

#literacy #politics #reading #writing

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Jan 4, 2018

Whose whom?

W(h)ither grammar

How many problems in reading stem from an ignorance of basic grammar? And how many problems in writing stem from an ignorance of basic grammar?

#grammar #teaching #reading #writing

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Jan 20, 2017

W(h)ither grammar

Nat Hentoff (1925–2017)

“I was addicted to books.”

#jazz #politics #writing #books #reading

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Jan 11, 2017

Nat Hentoff (1925–2017)

The page-ninety-nine test

Should really be the page-ninety test.

#reading #writing

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Aug 24, 2014

The page-ninety-nine test

Also from Robert Walser

“When I read, I am a harmless, nice and quiet person and I don’t do anything stupid.”

#RobertWalser #reading #writing

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Jun 4, 2014

Also from Robert Walser

Verlyn Klinkenborg on the English major

“Ventriloquistic syntax.”

#academia #reading #writing #VerlynKlinkenborg

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Feb 12, 2014

Verlyn Klinkenborg on the English major

William Zinsser, listening

“People read with their ears, whether they know it or not.”

#reading #writing #WilliamZinsser

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Apr 29, 2013

William Zinsser, listening

“[B]eautiful and surprising and deep”

A passage from Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five.

#reading #writing

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Apr 12, 2012

“[B]eautiful and surprising and deep”

PUSH

An old metal sign, good advice for reading, writing, and teaching.

#dowdyworld #reading #signage #teaching #writing

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Nov 3, 2009

PUSH

Walter Benjamin on readers and writers

It is a truth universally acknowledged, sort of, that we are all writers now. Walter Benjamin’s observations suggest that we were all writers “then,” too.

#reading #WalterBenjamin #writing

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Aug 12, 2009

Walter Benjamin on readers and writers

Readers and writers

From a supercomputing glossary

#language #reading #writing #words #dictionary

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Dec 2, 2006

Readers and writers

Proust again

On reading, an excerpt from Swann's Way

#Proust #reading #writing

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Jun 21, 2006

Proust again