Reference is to sense
as deference to motive.
Some words are indications,
others, supplications.
There are things we understand
and people we obey.
all the usage in the world
Style composes aspects with manners, appearances with surfaces.
A local style collates the aspects of things lying around in a vicinity with the manners of a people going about their business there. It coordinates the surfaces that are manifest with the appearances that are maintained.
A personal style does its own thing as someone or other sees fit.
What is it about a fact that allows us to write it down?
By this aspect, it is known.
And what is it about an act that lets us put it in writing?
In this manner,* we master it.
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*I had previously written "By this conceit" because I needed a "grasp" (ceit = cept) to go with the "look" (spect). I wasn't happy with it because "concept" belongs with knowledge, not power. Then "manner" occured to me and I looked it up: "manus" (hand).
The modern fact
is extended.
The modern act
is intentional;
the modern subject,
extentionless;
the modern object,
unintended.
The modern image
is a concept
backed like
an emotion.
The modern mind
is cracked.
The modern heart
is broken.
Let us see people again
and hear how they feel.
Let us do things, and let
us say what we think.
Don't act in desperation
nor disavow the deed.
Whatever the outcome,
it will not be yours to claim,
nor will you learn
from your mistake.
Let everything you do express
a promise or a hope.
Caesar non supra grammaticos.
Anon.
I am a grammarian.
We will or we will not cry together.
Gertrude Stein