the beauty of the words


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Posted by Ed Kiser on June 24, 2004 at 18:34:43 from 149.174.164.6 user Kisered.

SD CH26

"The hills beyond Rio now showed over the Swallowdale moors, and beyond those hills they could see hills more distant still, faint and blue, like clouds that had borrowed colour from the sky."


WH CH5

"Softly, at first, as if it hardly meant it, the snow began to fall."

WD CH15

"So... and back... So... and back... Lean and sway
with this triumphant motion. Good little ship. Good little
ship. He put a hand over the edge of the coaming and patted
the damp deck in the darkness."


To mention just these snippits above and to leave out so many other perhaps even more fascinating descriptions does an injustice to those that have been apparently ignored, as they are by their own right great examples of the magic conjured by the written descriptive word as assembled by the master craftsman of prose.

When reading these books, it is more than just accounts of a bunch of kids camping out, with their "let's pretend" fantasies. As you read these, try not to let yourself read them so fast that you fail to SEE the words. Perhaps what needs doing is to simply read it OUT LOUD, preferable to an appreciative audience, so that you can be sure to be aware of each word, of each description, of each little patch of poetic prose. Lines like the ones quoted above can be so easily just scanned over, and their beauty somehow just totally missed.

When reading a book, the object is not to get it read and done, over with, but to enjoy the getting there, for when you finish that last page, the magic fades; it is all over. It was fun while it lasted, but now it done, and it is now time to do something else. Let us not make a journey with such haste to get to that destination that we fail to appreciate the beauty of the land we travel through on the way, for it is in the opportunity to appreciate that beauty that provides the true value of the journey.

How grateful we should be that he shared his appreciation of the beauty of this land with us all, of whatever generation.

Ed Kiser, South Florida



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