In MFAland, gradschooland. Reading and rereading, among many things, Henry James’ “Beast in the Jungle” (which I mistyped as “Beach in the Jungle”) and The New Sentence.
I like how “sentence” is “oración” in Spanish, and that it’s feminine. La Nueva Oración. In English, a sentence is more about the conventions of writing than speaking. The closest English word to oración is, of course, oration, though oration is rather formal, dignified and ritualized. Latin orationem–”speaking, discourse, language, prayer.”
I ordered a sobject t-shirt last summer but it never arrived. I am starting to think I should give up.