Discovery, even after years of diagramming

"The joining of ideas in compound structures--placing them side by side, especially without connectors--is somtimes called parataxis."

~from Artful Sentences, by Virginia Tufte

e.g.

They snipped the ribbon in 1915, they popped the cork, Miami beach was born.
~Norman Mailer

Isn't that wonderful? There's a name for that!

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Currently taking a class that focuses not just on grammar but how language affects writing, specifically prose, specifically fiction. Our first session was yesterday, it breathed a bit of life back into me, it made me sad it would be only four weeks.

Hey, that was parataxis!

Wonderful.

This is why I started this blog.