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Jun. 20th, 2008 08:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceI had to write the intro for another man's stories. First draft was done some time ago, but I need to send it away now, so I'm rereading.
I barely remember doing this, I don't at all remember what I said, so it's all fresh and interesting and not-quite-me. I recognise the tone - I am Serious But Playful, when I comment on others' work - but the thoughts are no longer my own. Neither the sentences.
Hence, I'm allowed to grin with a very particular kind of pleasure (actually, a double pleasure: oh, that's cool followed by hey, did I do that?) when I hit a sentence I really like:
It calls for a marriage of style and content that can be neither forced nor arranged but has to be striven for, sweated over, cultivated like something as precious and rare as it is obdurate and slippery - and that's for starters, that's before it'll get into bed with you.
I barely remember doing this, I don't at all remember what I said, so it's all fresh and interesting and not-quite-me. I recognise the tone - I am Serious But Playful, when I comment on others' work - but the thoughts are no longer my own. Neither the sentences.
Hence, I'm allowed to grin with a very particular kind of pleasure (actually, a double pleasure: oh, that's cool followed by hey, did I do that?) when I hit a sentence I really like:
It calls for a marriage of style and content that can be neither forced nor arranged but has to be striven for, sweated over, cultivated like something as precious and rare as it is obdurate and slippery - and that's for starters, that's before it'll get into bed with you.