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April 13: Another Paint Shop exercise:
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I committed it on 11 April 2008. Just threw crap into it. But "driftwood," from "trade winds," suggested "driftwould." That became a little stand-alone pwoermd, "woullllllllllllld," with silent l's drifting from one island, or continent, to another. I hope to use it somewhere interestingly. Meanwhile, "commerce" intrigued me enough as an image/idea for me to want to use it in an extension of my long divisions of the word, "poetry." Right after that, I suddenly thought of dividing "poetry" by all the parts of speech I've been fooling with lately. I have some possibly effective ideas on how to do this that I hope to get going on soon.
Before I leave, I have another new word for you. If you're one of the three who have grappled with my taxonomy of human expression, you will know that I divide verbal expression into advocature, informrature and literature--to denote, respectively, the effort to use words to tell people how to behave, to tell people what to think, and to tell people what to feel. Actually, I consider literature's final purpose to make us feel happy. Hence, I now call it "celebrature."
A bit of a frivolous change of a perfectly adequate term? Possibly. But all at once (on 11 April, to be exact), I realized that "literature" covered too much territory. "The scientific literature." The "literature" that comes with a computer to tell you how to set it up. I now call all forms of verbal expression "literature," and go with "celebrature" for "literary literature." Same as the reasoning behind my use of "illumagery" for "visual art."
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