roachboy

knifemissle:

thanks for that.

first a little explanation: i started playing at tfp mostly as a device to get myself away from writing in an academic style, which i had more or less forgotten how to do--i don't know when exactly--all i know is that i remember reading something i wrote a few years ago and not recognizing anything about myself in it at all. this did not please me.

so when i started here, i adopted a couple style tics to force myself out of it.
for some reason, they've become characteristics of how i write on the board.
i write in a different mode in the journal--more precise (probably more hermetic, too)
another feature is that i write very fast because i'm generally wedging this in between other things.

and i don't post to philo that often because i find it frustrating.
it's difficult to say much.

one of the tics was the use of dashes to separate clauses or fragments. i use them to switch register alot within the same sentence. i figure that i can make sentences do more or less what i want that way. there's a conceptual game that interests me which centers on playing around with sentence structures. so even though i am not playing them here, i've trained myself to work through that game. it seems to have eaten its way into how i think.

that i don't use caps follows from the same basic idea--it was a device to push myself off writing in an academic mode initially, a way of marking this as another space, another type of writing. now it's just a habit specific to this place.

your parsing of my sentence is curious: i meant the whole thing as a continuous move and it doesn't really reduce in the way you posited. the original makes more sense to me if you read the whole thing as a continuity rather than break it up by seeing it as fragments.

but it does help me see why you (and maybe others) have trouble with the style. which seems clear to me.

i'm not sure about changing the approach, particularly not to this particular forum. i'm thinking about it for clarity's sake, but at the same time i suspect that if i push much away from this informal type of writing, i won't be inclined to post here. this is a very very constricting and constricted format to do much with beyond cite things and make little comments.
not much room for argument or variations, i find.
plus i don't particularly feel like loading in a frame of reference that has no particular standing in the community. so i don't.

thanks for the post, though.
i'm thinking about it.

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