RE: RAT Re: John Sylvain and "grammar"

["Sylvain, John" <jsylvain@station.sony.com>]

Well said.

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> Subject:	RAT Re:  John Sylvain and "grammar"
> 
> 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.