Earth Wide Moth: Drossertation

Friday, July 27, 2007

Drossertation

Less than one sentence in, it occurred to me that much of the magnum opus would need to be rewritten.

I mean that so far I have not been able to write perfectly intelligible, polished, ingenious prose on the first attempt. You can imagine my shock and dismay.

Posted by Derek Mueller at July 27, 2007 12:55 PM to Dissertation

Comments

hee hee . . . I went through this a few months ago. It gets better . . . for about 30 minutes at a time. Hang in there!

Posted by: Billie at July 27, 2007 5:34 PM

"When you are at school and learn grammar grammar is very exciting. I really do not know that anything has every been more exciting than diagramming sentences. I suppose other things may be more exciting to others when they are at school but to me undoubtedly when I was at school the really completely exciting thing was diagramming sentences and that has been to me ever since the one thing that has been completely exciting and completely completing. I like the feeling the everlasting feeling of sentences as they diagram themselves." Gertrude Stein, "Poetry and Grammar."