tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post5683669395390804067..comments2024-03-10T23:01:51.493-05:00Comments on Stupid Motivational Tricks / Bemsha Swing: Day 4: Jonathan regains his brillianceJonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-74533857611634754362012-05-28T12:56:48.411-05:002012-05-28T12:56:48.411-05:00Also: it seems to me that this one is an example o...Also: it seems to me that this one is an example of "Mayhewian disjunction": Mayhew's "but", if you will.Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-91562391588699865842012-05-28T12:53:51.906-05:002012-05-28T12:53:51.906-05:00That's how it works with flashes of high style...That's how it works with flashes of high style. You (unintentionally) produce it. We canonize it.Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-29012356687672028162012-05-28T10:09:15.641-05:002012-05-28T10:09:15.641-05:00Yes, but I can't do that on purpose. If I try ...Yes, but I can't do that on purpose. If I try to write a "Mayhewianism" it doesn't work. It has to just arise organically. For example, that sentence originally didn't have the part about the mafias movies. That's the touch that makes it a Mayhewianism, but I can't do that in every sentence.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-8003220009994270562012-05-28T09:24:39.070-05:002012-05-28T09:24:39.070-05:00I'd also say you've regained your "Ma...I'd also say you've regained your <a href="http://pangrammaticon.blogspot.com/search?q=Mayhewianism" rel="nofollow">"Mayhewianism"</a>:<br /><br />"I began to feel brutishly stupid. It was true that I was studying Keats and Wordsworth and watching bad Italian mafia movies from the 70s, but I was not writing, not producing my own ideas."Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.com