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Date: 16 June 2005 20:25:09
....you're going to quote someone, then at least do it properly!", I shout at myself as I realise I've done Russell Hoban a mischief (re: blog entry for June 13th).
It's been so long since I've had a really intellectual discussion. It's that other chap who wrote the Bible. Firkin? Pipkin? Pilkin? Wilkins?
Milton, you mean? said Kleinzeit.
That's it, said Word. Milton. They don't write like that any more. As it were the crack of leather on willow. A well-bowled thought, you know, meeting a well-swung sentence. No, the pitches aren't green the way they were, the whites don't take the light the same way. It mostly isn't writing now, it's just spelling.
Kleinzeit, p. 71.