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"The eminent… early 20th-century American grammarian George O. Curme made a detailed study of the literary history of the split infinitive, and amassed a collection of hundreds and hundreds of examples. Some of his findings… are set forth in his book Syntax (1931), which forms Part III of his 3-volume work A Grammar of the English Language. Look at what he says on page 461:
[The split infinitive] has long been used in literary and colloquial language. In general, it is more characteristic of our more prominent authors than of the minor writers, who avoid it as they fear criticism." Minor writers, it is our great task to boldly go where no minor writer has gone before!
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Well knock me over with a feather: "Caveat lector! The endorsements on books aren’t entirely impartial. Unbeknownst to the average reader, blurbs are more often than not from the writer’s best friends, colleagues or teachers, or from authors who share the same editor, publisher or agent. They represent a tangled mass of friendships, rivalries, favors traded and debts repaid, not always in good faith."
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Erika D. says: "Don Noble's 'Kind and Balanced: Four Lessons Toward the Well-crafted Book Review' offers some terrific pointers…" Check out the link.
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"Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals. If I had to express in one word what makes their personalities different from others, it's complexity. They show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an 'individual,' each of them is a 'multitude.'"
Here are the 10 antithetical traits often present in creative people that are integrated with each other in a dialectical tension…."
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Mygazines again: "Not only should American freelancers find this site useful — I’m having trouble getting out to the bookstore this week — but for those of you who write for American magazines and can’t find current issues easily will adore this site!" But what if you're a freelancer and it's *your* content that's been uploaded to the site?
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