> [Krimel] > Slow down there big guy. Great minds are often befuddled by the > polysyllabic. The fingers bleed with paper cuts from thumbing the > dictionary. Terribly unedifying and the smell arouses the feline > bloodlust...
[Platt] Guess Krimel never heard of much less learned from "The Technique of Clear Writing" by Robert Gunning. [Krimel] No, I haven't. I am sure it's grand but the title makes me suspicious. There is the "craft of writing" and there are "wordsmiths." In radio interviews and in Ant's videos I think Pirsig is at his best when he is talking about that "craft" and literary technique. I think Pirsig is that kind of craftsman who elevates the craft to the status of art. But seems to me that if art is reduced to technique, all you get is algorithm. What was it that fellow said in the article you linked earlier today? "[t]he cognitive elements of the job," writes Crawford, "are appropriated from professionals, instantiated in a system or process, and then handed back to the new class of workers-clerks-who replace the professionals." ...script writers, Admen, reporters, copywriters and God forbid, writers of technical manuals. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
