the villa seurat series presented by paul herron
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“One of your over-recurring and abominable locutions. Study it!See what’s wrong with it—in English, in French, in Spanish,
in any god-damned tongue!”
Miller responds: “ROT!! Cut it! Sounds weepy, teary,
sentimental. NATURALLY she felt these things. Undo all
the heavy stresses. Take out all the inflation and leave the
hard, bare rock of concrete reality—then you get accurate
poignancy. I am laying it on thick, because now you should
see how certain aspects of “diary” writing lead to FALSE
ACCENTS. Because it is a writing behind walls—without
the hope of criticism or of suffering the strong light of day.
GET ME?”
But she admits in another letter to Durrell: “I feel I am
making superhuman efforts to dominate not only a language
that is not mine but to say things which I should have said
with music and dancing. I am deeply and honestly aware of
my faults. I feel like a stutterer at times. Worst of all, I suffer
because when I look at the bad phrase I can’t see it’s bad.
Imagine a painter being color-blind.”
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