Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Introduction To the Lizzie Lou Whitechurch-Chaplain-Chambers Syntax

Syntax.

What a neat word!

Syntax is basically the rhythm of your communications, whether written or oral and can be stretched to include the newest communication style to evolve in such a pervasive manner, of which I refer to the syntax used when composing Instant Messages on the computer for example.  AFK can mean "after four keywords" and although you might be doing another AFK by being "away from keyboard," it is rare to find a :) in a business plan or financial projection, even though I've been told it represents a smile, but that's only if I'm tilting my head at least 45 degrees to the left.  Otherwise it's just a typo.

My circumstances have brought forth cognitive dissonance with this particular term, so if you don't understand the message I am attempting to deliver with this particular syntax I have chosen to craft...just wait until you get further into this book! :)  I'm hoping to sound like a lawyer, a doctor, a student, an employee, a victor, a victim...I take on a wide variety of roles within these essays by adapting the syntax of any particular profession and/or industry simply because nowadays there seems to be a demand for more content than what can be contained within the now seemingly archaic method of print only and feel that this book is more of an index to the already existing or at least previously existing materials, despite my hope for each of these essays to fulfill my ideal of creating multiple free-standing compositions that all come together under one binding.

Whether or not I have achieved production of even one quality essay or composition in my lifetime is something the soul of an artist can never entirely resolve since it is the drive to build upon existing materials to buy more time to create more materials that can buy more time to build upon existing materials...


And if my seemingly not-so-much-out-of-character syntax contained within the rest of this book takes on too much true tunage along the way, I can only hope that the reader remembers that a fiction writer is responsible for faithfully fooling us into believing a variety of things.

Reality can also faithfully fool us as well.  I was once sold ownership of a disease I didn't own.  I've even been told layered paperwork prevents proper ownership of who exactly created me.

Funny thing is...not a drip of a drop of paperwork could ever designate who has "ownership" over me...but there's an awful lot of people claiming to have a vested interest in me.

I wonder if I'll ever discern the difference...

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