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Date Posted: 02:23:47 11/07/99 Sun
Author: Zenman
Subject: Re: Missing the game
In reply to: Max 's message, "Missing the game" on 18:08:07 11/06/99 Sat

> Your mention of a thesaurus made me think of a friend.
> When he was in high school he was in a band. He
> wrote song lyrics by reading the thesaurus and picking
> the most outragous synonym for what he wanted to say.
> It is quite a trip talking to him even today.
>
> I figured if i was going to miss college football, i
> might as well check in at the Gulch!
>
> Max

Saluton, Max!

It is merciful that you missed the game, if it's the one that I saw. I wish I had been at The Gulch.

Re: Thesaurus: I remember reading in Ayn Rand's biography that she used the Thesaurus to write her novels in a similar way to your friend. Her native language was Russian, for which there were no thesaures, so when she was learning English and writing her first novel, she used one and chose the most violent, intense synonym for the occasion.

"Intensity" is a quality in writing that many novelists talk about. It, apparently, is one of the hardest things to attain. Maybe this is a secret I should be using and not talking about. Hmmm, where's my thesaurus (oh, it's on Cetus, that's right).

BTW, did you know that "thesaurus" means "religious lizard" in Esperanto?

Zenman

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