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...ride said he would not attempt to speak like them because "I would never massacrate their language." And an organizer of the event said he liked it better this year than last because there were "more people and a better chance to conjugate." After awhile, the inebriated ear grows accustomed to tortured syntax, and all linguistic motor skills begin to dissipate. And the band plays...
CESAR CHAVEZ, the head of the United Farm Workers (UFW), was in town this week to drum up support for a new grape boycott. It seems the governor of California, George Deukmejian, has turned a deaf ear to the plight of the impoverished--in some cases, starving--laborers, in sharp contrast to the open-arms policies of Chavez old friend, former governer Jerry Brown. Chavez objects specifically to Deukmejian's recent line-veto of an appropriation by the state congress which was to speed up the collection of millions of dollars in back pay owed the workers. But that issue...
...always, Gurney has a keen eye and ear for the revealing trait: the parents so in love with their young children that they wake them in mid-evening, just to be with them some more; the long-married woman who reflexively takes on the opposite mood to whatever her husband is feeling; the house salesman who comes close to true rapture in envisioning domestic bliss for all his customers. When Kitty, the best-sketched figure, loses her second husband to another man, the reader can guess the precise tone in which she describes her rival to divert sympathy...
Leonard excels at this sort of corner-of-the-mouth satire. His research sometimes sticks out, but he has a perfect ear for punk talk, a hungry eye for sleaze and an eerie ability to get inside empty heads: "This ocean was different, the tourist believed, than the ocean up in New Jersey. Though it must be the same water because the oceans were all connected and the water would get different places." Madame Bovary on the boardwalk could not have said it better...
Ginsberg: Content is visual because you see pictures. According to one of Kerouac's quotes in an essay called "The Essentials of Modern Prose": "don't stop to think of the words but to see the picture better." The sound is something I here in my ear. There are no rules to that, you've just got to like the sound of the words. I wrote a poem in China called "China Bronchitis." Immediately the title sounded funny because of the sounds. It has sort of a bee-boop sound, and the "a" sound in "China" goes together with...