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Parentheses - An interruption of continuity; an interval.
"This is one of the things I wasn't prepared for — the amount of unfilled time, the long parentheses of nothing" (Margaret Atwood).
“For every period of time when you exist, short or long, there is a temporal part of you that exists only then. And for any temporal parts of any objects whatsoever, there is a larger object made up of just those parts.” - John Locke
"Every time I enunciate 'I', even in my thought, an identity is assumed, and this identity is itself not simple, but a figure of a complex gathering of personal and impersonal histories, texts, discourses, beliefs, cultural assumptions, and ideological interpellations...it is not an artifact but a process." - Richard Dyer
Thursday, November 18, 2010
a good essay is like good make-up.
it is able to highlight its strengths (what the writer knows) and conceal its weaknesses (what the writer doesnt know). a good essay need not come from a writer who knows his stuff, just like how a beautiful girl does not need to be a natural beauty. a good essay is like a girl with good make-up: you will be convinced that it is flawless.
so what is the make-up tool?
i find that the best tool is persuasive language.
it is able to highlight its strengths (what the writer knows) and conceal its weaknesses (what the writer doesnt know). a good essay need not come from a writer who knows his stuff, just like how a beautiful girl does not need to be a natural beauty. a good essay is like a girl with good make-up: you will be convinced that it is flawless.
so what is the make-up tool?
i find that the best tool is persuasive language.
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