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Jan. 14th, 2005 03:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
apollianaProfessor's comment on my long paper: "You rely too much on your words to carry their meanings on their faces."
It follows "an example would've been helpful." Hitherto I'd supposed the solution to be more words. But maybe clarity is in showing, not saying. (I mistrust words less than most. I feel that 'love,' used by me or others, is meaningful.) My paper was filled with comments like "depending on what you mean by 'enough'" or 'systematic.'
In metaphor words are notoriously open to interpretation, yet they are, when good, exact. They wear their meanings 'beyond.' Metaphor also shows.
Writing, because it is more detached from interaction, needs more specification than conversations need. It needs to take on the form of some particular classifiable act, even if such form is exaggeration, because otherwise it will be formless.
It follows "an example would've been helpful." Hitherto I'd supposed the solution to be more words. But maybe clarity is in showing, not saying. (I mistrust words less than most. I feel that 'love,' used by me or others, is meaningful.) My paper was filled with comments like "depending on what you mean by 'enough'" or 'systematic.'
In metaphor words are notoriously open to interpretation, yet they are, when good, exact. They wear their meanings 'beyond.' Metaphor also shows.
Writing, because it is more detached from interaction, needs more specification than conversations need. It needs to take on the form of some particular classifiable act, even if such form is exaggeration, because otherwise it will be formless.
