tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6694880585491590788.post3681516304848958050..comments2024-03-26T23:45:35.573-04:00Comments on Typings: John Galsworthy's To Let (The Forsyte Saga 3)reesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15818057262934008241noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6694880585491590788.post-66248805321916962232020-06-12T22:48:16.645-04:002020-06-12T22:48:16.645-04:00Soames' story really is pretty tragic, though ...Soames' story really is pretty tragic, though I felt it more strongly in the 1st and 3rd books--he felt a little too much just a villain in the second, which was a weakness on Galsworthy's part, I thought.<br /><br />I thought the ending was a surprise and a success both, which is why I didn't want to give it away. (I may even have indulged in a little misdirection...)<br /><br />Thanks for stopping by! reesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15818057262934008241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6694880585491590788.post-42502783282847690382020-06-12T20:37:17.682-04:002020-06-12T20:37:17.682-04:00I read To Let as well! I thought I should round of...I read To Let as well! I thought I should round off the at least the first trilogy. I never noticed the exclamation points BUT I will say that I did interpret pretty much all of Soames' internal thoughts as sort of breathless outrage at how the world won't work the way he wants it to. <br /><br />I wouldn't go so far to say I am "Team Soames" but I do continue to feel sorry for him because he does not see where he has gone wrong. That is tragic, really. <br /><br />I thought how it ended was interesting. I didn't quite expect that, though I was not disappointed.Ruthiellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03871834571645928819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6694880585491590788.post-65532103934949620552020-06-10T14:42:52.328-04:002020-06-10T14:42:52.328-04:00Well, I haven't seen the series yet, but based...Well, I haven't seen the series yet, but based on the books it's hard to imagine a team Soames. Of course, Rupert Graves might help...reesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15818057262934008241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6694880585491590788.post-74823709325460710972020-06-09T22:36:31.111-04:002020-06-09T22:36:31.111-04:00These posts are reminding me how much I loved the ...These posts are reminding me how much I loved the bbc series with Rupert Graves (I’m a team Jolyon girl!)<br />It was a few years after that I discovered that there were more books —sequels—when I found an old copy of The Swan Song in a secondhand bookshop!!<br />😁Bronahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11110584237325026052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6694880585491590788.post-19341937590941883992020-05-28T18:13:50.771-04:002020-05-28T18:13:50.771-04:00I've always liked dashes, but also colons, why...I've always liked dashes, but also colons, why choose? Not to mention the semi-colon--I've never understood the fuss about that one--which is a brilliant aid to swiftness.<br /><br />As for my own ticks, I tend to end things in an ellipsis...probably more than I should...<br /><br />Of course with the addition of emojis, punctuation is undergoing a renaissance not seen since Aristophanes the grammarian... ;-) !!!reesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15818057262934008241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6694880585491590788.post-45942425555017203622020-05-28T15:14:42.494-04:002020-05-28T15:14:42.494-04:00I dunno. So much of what happens in these stories ...I dunno. So much of what happens in these stories does seem exclamation-mark worthy, no? Well, maybe not thought processes? But for Mudpuddles! Punctuation is such a tick, I think. I've heard (and absorbed the dash advice) but have recently been working with an editor who is impatient with my use of colons and prefers the dashes. And, sure enough, they seem to do the trick just fine. *shrugs* Maybe we've all spent too much time thinking about it. I'd like to add an exclamation mark to that sentiment, but it seems like overkill. There too. And there. Okay, I'll stop now...<br /><br />(I think I only read one more in this series, and it was a very short one. You're making me wish that I still had my old copies!) Buried In Printhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00808249065026802365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6694880585491590788.post-62224263097980956522020-05-27T20:02:55.983-04:002020-05-27T20:02:55.983-04:00I'm definitely a user of exclamation marks mys...I'm definitely a user of exclamation marks myself: they have a use! But it feels to me a more powerful punctuation mark than I think it is for Galsworthy, or at least as Galsworthy intends. I'd use them more sparingly.reesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15818057262934008241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6694880585491590788.post-47562302231891767412020-05-27T19:53:35.305-04:002020-05-27T19:53:35.305-04:00Probably better not to have noticed them...I don&#...Probably better not to have noticed them...I don't think he wants us to register them as much as I did. And you're right--you have to let the author be the guide. Still it colored what I thought of these characters in ways I'm not sure Galsworthy intended.<br /><br />I went and looked at Dorrit Cohn's book on free indirect & some of her examples. Certainly Woolf uses the exclamation mark in this way, and Cohn also gives examples from Stendhal & Herman Broch, though in all three of those many fewer exclamation marks than Galsworthy. Flaubert interestingly, at least in her examples, uses more question marks.<br /><br />As for 'rules for writing' they're always good for a laugh, I figure. Whatever the rule, you can always find somebody great who violates it.reesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15818057262934008241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6694880585491590788.post-7025940336921870662020-05-27T18:14:35.411-04:002020-05-27T18:14:35.411-04:00I did not even notice the exclamation marks. I gu...I did not even notice the exclamation marks. I guess I just rolled with them. Let the writer teach me how to read him, like that. But I always take those "rules for writers" as meaning "this is a rule for *this class*" not for all writers and all writing.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6694880585491590788.post-45051739725124793162020-05-27T17:49:46.921-04:002020-05-27T17:49:46.921-04:00don't know about that, he said... i use a lot...don't know about that, he said... i use a lot of exclamation points because that's how my brain works: sudden thoughts or impressions fall into it like a loose elevator! i can well imagine Soames' brain cells impulsively coughing up stuff... "rambler rose", after all...mudpuddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16647084124715892324noreply@blogger.com