Re: RAT dramaturgy

[vz <dexteriously@yahoo.com>]

--- Audie McCall <audiemccall@yahoo.com> wrote:
Well, we can into a long, drawn out discussion of ....  
But mostly the reason I cringe is that "dramaturgy" is simply an
unaesthetic word for me.  It's not fun to say, like "blithe" or
"kumquat" or "rhododendron".  (By the way, the most beautiful word in
any language is “estacionamiento”, or parking lot in Spanish.  Almost
makes you want to be a car, so you can sleep the sleep of the blessed
in an "estacionamiento".)
> 
“Dramaturgy” has a strange phonic familiarity with words like “turd”
and “turgid”, which are fine words that are actually fun to say, so I’m
not really sure why I loathe it.  But I do, and I suspect I’m not
alone.
> 
Thoughts?


Yes, absolutely, I agree with you about the word.  But since I'm
frequently trying to do dramaturgical things, and since my literary
manager and I have wrestled a bit with the term, I wanted to be sure I
wasn't missing out on any of the issues it raises.

w 
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