January 16, 2010

#59

The writer arranges for syntax to return to thought the simplicity which words take away.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 33

2 comments:

  1. The original Spanish is:

    El escritor procura que la sintaxis le devuelva al pensamiento la sencillez que las palabras le quitan.

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  2. Cf. Notas, p. 180:

    "The height of the art [of writing] is to return to thought by means of words the simplicity which words rob it of."

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