03-11-2013, 09:00 AM
A Clockwork Orange is one of my favourite books; and yes, there is a place for everything. But knowing that it has been done before hundreds of years ago is important too. Burgess didn’t write a clockwork orange not paying attention to rules of language or grammar, nor did Joyce or Thomas or Sterne [1759 no less] , they used them, manipulated them, understood them and, most importantly, could account for each fracture, each comma without a space. A broken rule must be justified. I remember at school, my teacher told me never to begin a sentence with ‘and’… I promptly wrote a poem beginning ‘and…’
But, I am unsure as to exactly why the space following the comma. It does seem a little trivial, and fuck me if I haven’t come round to the idea I heard an interview once with Wes Craven, he said the first thing the audience should be scared of is the director. I suppose that works with poetry too, and our ideas about ‘should’.
But, I am unsure as to exactly why the space following the comma. It does seem a little trivial, and fuck me if I haven’t come round to the idea I heard an interview once with Wes Craven, he said the first thing the audience should be scared of is the director. I suppose that works with poetry too, and our ideas about ‘should’.