This from Ploughshares:
It occured to me the perfect confrontation between the ironic and the sincere. In the movie, at least in this scene, the sincere has the upper hand. In the ideal writer, however, I suppose these characters’ traits would be combined, aesthetics dictating what percent of each character would be included.
I haven’t seen the [...]
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Hyperbole seems to have cross-over appeal. It’s not just for poetry any more.
What I mean is this: Anyone who has something to communicate can whip out a hyperbole and sling it around like a broadsword. I picture some political commentators (I won’t name names) in a David Carradine-like movie fighting the evil dragon of [...]
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