[HPFGU-Catalogue] From the Hinterlands...

[Sean Dwyer]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:26:55PM -0000, Talisman wrote:

> Word choice is an essential part of an individual author's style.  
> Do they have a jingoistic fervor for the stolid Anglo-Saxon, as 
> Orwell did? Or, do they embrace the affectations of the upstart 
> Norman tongue?  How about the systematically sultry southern 
> sibilance of William Faulkner?

JKR insists on the word "bracingly". It's consistent enough to be worth a
drinking-game. Any other words that jump out for anyone?

> P.S. Snow, darling.  My fellow poet. Thank you for your willingness 
> to risk exposure to my dark and roiling soul. Nonetheless, I really 
> must insist that people be slightly lit, whether by foreign 
> stimulants or quietly bubbling manias, before reciting my poetry.  
> Dim lighting helps, too.  Trust me.  Hallmark will not be offering 
> any contracts.  Indeed, many an honest householder, with child 
> protection filters in place, would be barred from accessing the 
> list, were I to start posting it here.  

by a contributor (after the style of don marquis) :

oh oh oh oh Snape
i yearn for you tragically
though you're fictional
and possibly morbid
it is no impediment
noone will notice
if we keep the lights off
that's better

-- 
When all you have are foxes, everything looks like a henhouse.