RAT Re: John Sylvain and "grammar"

[TravSD@aol.com]

Yo, John Sylvain--Shakespeare didn't give a fuck about grammar because no 
dogma about english grammar existed in the Elizabethen period! He is the 
master of the split infinitive, the mixed metaphor, and the extra foot of 
meter-- in short, he is a great writer simply BECAUSE he bent the language to 
his will and the fucking pedants, schoolmarms and "style mavens" hadn't yet 
spread their feces around the field of human expression, straight-jacketing 
the very words as they escape from our brains. Fuck the details! so said 
Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Plautus, Rabelais, Shakespeare, Chaucer and Walt 
Whitman and so say I. Trav S.D.