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Originally Posted by chopsaw  I'd also include Orwell's "Why I Write" and Francine Prose's "Reading Like a Writer." And read with a dictionary, it's amazing the insights you'll gain when you know the multiple meanings of the words, and how they can be interpreted. |
and listen to
gilbert & sullivan - talk about mastery of the english language:
I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's;
I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox,
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous;
I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies,
I know the croaking chorus from the Frogs of Aristophanes!
Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore,
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.
CHORUS
Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform,
And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus's uniform: