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On English and Writing: Leon Lanzbom |
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email: lanzbom@yahoo.com Who Are We? Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become 
in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. --Nathaniel Hawthorne We are "The Word Rogues." Though we find ourselves in different classes on different campuses, we have one thing in common: we love the word, spoken, written, visualized. We treasure, plunder, prey upon the word--its sound, its sight, its symbolization, and how it transforms, chameleon-like, depending upon circumstance and intention.
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Word n. [Old English. Indo-European Roots shared by Latin verbum.] 1. A meaningful sound or a combination of sounds, or its representation in writing, that symbolizes and communicates a meaning and may consist of a single morpheme or of a combination of morphemes. Rogue n. [Origin unknown] 1. An unprincipled person; a scoundrel or rascal. 2. One who is playfully mischievous; a scamp. ________________________ You will find here aids for writing, your syllabus, and other interesting tidbits to help you through your semester. This site--a work in progress--changes daily, so bookmark this page and and get a little playfully mischievous. Why Are We Here?  The Word Rogues: a website dedicated to the
dynamics of
learning. We are a group of people gathered together with a
common purpose: to plunge into the dark mere pool of the unknown--our own
archetypal trip, not unlike the journeys of Beowulf, Gilgamesh, and
Aeneas. In these classes, each week, we’re going to search for our state of equilibrium through the words of those who searched before us. We’re going to cancel all opposing forces and listen to that little voice inside our heads. It’s that same little voice that every one of the writers we’ll study this semester heard, the voice that tells us anything is possible if we decide it is. Accomplishment begins with a thought. The desk you sit at, the computer you work on, the book you read from, were all, at one time, a lonely thought in someone's mind. Chances are somebody told the owner of that thought that it couldn't be done--only the rich will be able to afford printed books; no one needs desks; computers in every home? No way. But he or she didn't believe it, and followed through. We will approach our work in class like these great chance takers. We will disgard the negatives of the past and start from scratch and believe anything is possible, especially good writing. We will gather our thoughts and coax them out of our synapses and solidify them on paper and hold them up to the world. Most of all, we will realize that we all have worth, that we're all in this world for a reason--notre raison d'ętre. And, if we do get the BIG IDEA--that it's all good, it's all right, and each of us controls his or her destiny--we're going to help each other find the still point of this moving world for at least one semester. |
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the dictionary is in the devil 
Last words Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. --Henry David Thoreau |
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