Absolute Gentleman

Consider the following sentence that I’m considering:
Human beings desire the dramatic.
Then consider
Human beings desire drama.
In the interest of brevity and conciseness, which is something I demand from my students, the latter wins by a nose. However, in the interest in rhythm, the former is the obvious choice. John Gardner discusses this in The Art of [...]

There’s nothing like healthy doses of hate mail, from people you care about, to get the blood flowing. Yeah, the whining I’m doing about life with my father is somewhat pathetic, but in the purest sense of the word. There is a pathos here, and I am allowed to contemplate it, especially during this time [...]