Proliferation (pg 50-51): "The sea voyage is a process of divergence, branching, proliferation, and confusion...
Convergence (pg 51): "The coming to land is a process of convergence, pruning, centralizing, and clarifying.
Salvo (Pg 52): "The next step, the following thing, the reply, the answering salvo."
Muse (Pg 126-27): "Everyone is visited by the muse under certain conditions..."
Perfunctory (Pg 183-184): "Your account is a bit perfunctory."
Feasible (Pg 228-29): "Both tasks, while difficult, turn out to be feasible and enormously rewarding."
Criteria (Pg 240-241): "Measure your writing to a certain criteria."
Digression (Pg 245-46): "Besides, readers often guide their own... digressions..."
Thank you so much for doing this, David. Everybody, you have to study the words. To learn a new word, you have to take a moment to think about it.
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh thank you so much david!! I was sitting here thinking where I would find these sentences, since I don't have the peter elbow book in my HAND! you're definitely A LIFE SAVER, thanks again :)
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