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Notes on Style

General Notes

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  1. Multiple works coexisting within in one work. Sudden ruptures in otherwise omniscient narrative voice, unnerving descents into the second person. Syncopated syntax, bent grammar, specific declarations about the limits and unlimits of words.

  2. Characters rendered as whole persons but also symbolic selves, sides of the same personal whole. Moving towards wholeness from the wounds of childhood: literally recovering ourselves.

  3. Generic locations with metaphoric names: Babylon, Zion, The Promised Land (Selah). Post-psychoanalysis this is how religion is redeemed.

  4. Fragments in Homage: text inset with fragments from past writers, where they have perfected the words.  Common to music and poetry, strangely foreign to prose.

  5. Hard Agnosticism: treating the myriad possibilities of the spirit world seriously, declaring complete un-knowledge of any truth proposed.

  6. Masculine pronouns used in certain declamatory speech, not to exclude but to limit and preserve. Our Holy may not be Your Holy.

  7. Works form part of the New Scripture movement: disconnecting those narratives from Total Depravity, restoring the Great Story that has driven the success of the West.

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NOTES ON STYLE

General Notes

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  1. Multiple works coexisting within in one work. Sudden ruptures in otherwise omniscient narrative voice, unnerving descents into the second person. Syncopated syntax, bent grammar, specific declarations about the limits and unlimits of words.

  2. Characters rendered as whole persons but also symbolic selves, sides of the same personal whole.  Moving towards wholeness from the wounds of childhood: literally recovering ourselves.

  3. Generic locations with metaphoric names: Babylon, Zion, The Promised Land (Selah). Post-psychoanalysis this is how religion is redeemed.

  4. Fragments in Homage: text inset with fragments from past writers, where they have perfected the words.  Common to music and poetry, strangely foreign to prose.

  5. Hard Agnosticism: treating the myriad possibilities of the spirit world seriously, declaring complete un-knowledge of any truth proposed.

  6. Masculine pronouns used in certain declamatory speech, not to exclude but to limit and preserve. Our Holy may not be Your Holy.

  7. Works form part of the New Scripture movement: disconnecting those narratives from Total Depravity, restoring the Great Story that has driven the success of the West.

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