How To Write A Sentence – And How To Read One by Stanley Fish

A very useful book, stimulating and filled with little tools. You’ll enjoy it.

“Language is NOT a handmaiden to perception; it IS perception; it gives shape to what otherwise would be inert and dead. The shaping power of language cannot be avoided. We cannot chose to distance ourselves from it. We can only choose to employ it in one way or another.” – excerpt from How To Write A Sentence – And How To Read One by Stanley Fish. pg.42.

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