C Hollis
Troubadour
I enjoy looking into inspirational quotes that us writing types like to put in our signatures or hang on our walls. I think some of you would be surprised at the origins of those phrases that bring you inspiration.
But I digress.
In May, 1886, Chekhov wrote to his brother Alexander, who had literary ambitions: “In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For instance, you’ll have a moonlit night if you write that on the mill dam a piece of glass from a broken bottle glittered like a bright little star, and that the black shadow of a dog or a wolf rolled past like a ball.”
That letter is oft paraphrased and pasted on meme’s and posters:
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
by Anton Chekhov
Here's the question for the group:
Has our clicky-clicky, got to have it now culture completely invalidated Mr. Checkhov?
But I digress.
In May, 1886, Chekhov wrote to his brother Alexander, who had literary ambitions: “In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For instance, you’ll have a moonlit night if you write that on the mill dam a piece of glass from a broken bottle glittered like a bright little star, and that the black shadow of a dog or a wolf rolled past like a ball.”
That letter is oft paraphrased and pasted on meme’s and posters:
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
by Anton Chekhov
Here's the question for the group:
Has our clicky-clicky, got to have it now culture completely invalidated Mr. Checkhov?