
A Caustic Letter
October 30, 2009Nice try Rex but save it for the judge.
In an unrelated story, Californian President Arnold Schwarzenneger has shown grammatical dexterity, if not linguistic subtlety, in a letter to the motley club of girly men that passes for a legislature in that golden, if bankrupt, state.
You can read the letter here.
| At the outset, Babbelon applauds the use of language, |
| carefully constructed pieces that play with a |
| reader’s mind, exercising a full range of faculties, beyond the |
| obvious and literal, opening the recipient up to the |
| sub-surface. If an undercurrent is pulled across the warp of |
| the text, a resonance is produced that delights |
| intellectually. To find such creative depth in political |
| California gives Babbelon hope for the word. |
There is a name for the particular structure achieved by the Governator but it escapes Babbelon for the moment. No doubt it will be back.