On 2 November 2002, JIM DOHERTY wrote:
: FALCON is one of the best examples I've ever seen of waht
one writing
: instructor I had called "the camera/tape recorder" mode of
narration.
: Nothing is spelled out except what can concretely be seen
and heard.
: All emotions, thoughts, interior monologue, etc., are
things the reader
: has to infer.
When I think of this, I think of THE GLASS KEY. Absolutely
nothing internal at all, everything's outside, and you have
to figure it out yourself by watching and listening. Sort of
an anti-Marlowe. I think it's hard to write this way and make
it good.
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector.
-- # To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to # majordomo@icomm.ca. This will not work for the digest version. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 04 Nov 2002 EST