““This advice has been given often and more compellingly elsewhere, but my specific piece of wrong procedure back then was, incredibly, to browse through the #thesaurus and note words that sounded cool, hip, or likely to produce an effect, usually that of making me look good, without then taking the trouble to go and find out in the dictionary what they meant.” #QuotsyJan21
#under250pages #GratefulReads 2 thin volumes from 2 authors who tend to pen #chunksters This Pynchon a mere 193 pages the DeLillo, 117.
Kinda getting there! I hear you 50k +Littens laughing 😂
Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.
Slow Learner | 
