9/30 Readings

Hazel Smith
This text focused on structure. He covered a wide rang of structural principles. Linearity is a structural principle which is stated by Smith as the simplest form of structure. It compromises a series of events or ideas. Repetition is another structural principle discussed by Smith in which the writer circles around an idea rather than advancing through it. Another structural principle that Smith describes is variation. Variation is closely related to repetition. The words of the text are based on the same idea or technique. Simultaneity structure as described by Smith is a kind of structure that allows several things to happen at once, like a number of people talking at the same time. Multilarying is a structure in which different kinds of textual material alternate and recur. The structural principle that Smith describes is numbering. Numerical structures are built on arithmetical count or limit.

Gertrude Stein
His writings emphasize on the sound and rhythms or the text rather than the sense of the words. Some of his writings were extremely enjoyable. In the section titled the room I really enjoyed the lines that began with, sugar any sugar, anger very anger, lover sermon lover.... and left over to be a lamp light, left over in victory, left over in saving... In this text though you can't truly understand the meaning it is simple to catch the beat and understand the rhythm of his writing. The way in which writers write play a major role in how successful their writings will turn out.

Harriette Mullen (Sleeping with the Dictionary)
This excerpt was very enjoyable. Mullen did an excellent job in giving sort of human qualities to a dictionary and the way a dictionary is used. From the title to the last line of the excerpt her method of writing was known, understood and expressed extremely well. You really get the felling that Mullen is actually getting the dictionary and laying down to go to sleep with it.