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Re: Active versus passive (WAS Displays versus Appears-Which One? )
Subject:Re: Active versus passive (WAS Displays versus Appears-Which One? ) From:"Herman Holtz" <h -dot- holtz -at- worldnet -dot- att -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 21 Dec 2000 07:21:40 -0500
I see here a kind of Gresham's Law applied to reading, where the bad
writing drives out the good writing. I hope that isn't a general truth, and
I certainly think it was no so in my own case.
I believe I read my share (and more) of both well-written and badly
written books. (I read so many, growing up, that this is almost a
mathematical/probability fact.) I believe I managed somehow, even as a
highly impressionable youngster, to discriminate between the two and
recognize good writing as such.
Others' opinions? - Herm
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> "Read enough good books," she said, "the ones with good plot, good
character
> development, and the bad ones 'hurt your ears'."
>
> She was right. Read a badly written book and you end up cringing. At some
point
> you assimilate good language (we are borg, we will assimilate you....) and
your
> instinctively know what's bad and what's good, even if you don't know why.
>
> Jo Byrd
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