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* Re: don't leave a single, solitary thing beautifulHibou
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 by: Hibou - Sat, 10 Feb 2024 08:54 UTC

Le 10/02/2024 à 04:44, arthurvv vart a écrit :
>
> Franny said. “If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean you're
> supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and
> everything. The ones you're talking about don't leave a single, solitary thing
> beautiful.
>
> From "Franny and Zooey" by J.D> Salinger
>
> https://www.google.com/books/edition/Franny_and_Zooey/jaSiDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=franny+and+zooey+%22thing+beautiful%22&pg=PT17&printsec=frontcover
>
> http://tinyurl.com/mvy6xaj2
>
> I find 'a single. solitary thing beautiful' strange here. It is grammatically
> correct, but doesn't seem to mean what it is supposed to mean.
>
> You create something beautiful and leave it there, therefore you
> leave a beautiful thing. The adjective should precede the noun.
>
> They left no stone unturned.
> They left everything broken.
> He left the TV unrepaired although he was supposed to repair it.
>
> In all these cases, the 'thing' was already there.
>
> If I go somewhere and make something beautiful and leave it there,
> I have left a solitary beautiful thing there.
>
> What do you think?

I think it's dialogue, meant to be realistic and informal. In this
context "single, solitary" is quite natural as a form of emphasis, and
"thing beautiful" natural as an echo of "something beautiful". It's a
wee rhetorical surprise, and so stronger than "beautiful thing".

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 by: Bebercito - Sat, 10 Feb 2024 19:15 UTC

Le samedi 10 février 2024 à 09:54:27 UTC+1, Hibou a écrit :
> Le 10/02/2024 à 04:44, arthurvv vart a écrit :
> >
> > Franny said. “If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean you're
> > supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and
> > everything. The ones you're talking about don't leave a single, solitary thing
> > beautiful.
> >
> > From "Franny and Zooey" by J.D> Salinger
> >
> > https://www.google.com/books/edition/Franny_and_Zooey/jaSiDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=franny+and+zooey+%22thing+beautiful%22&pg=PT17&printsec=frontcover
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/mvy6xaj2
> >
> > I find 'a single. solitary thing beautiful' strange here. It is grammatically
> > correct, but doesn't seem to mean what it is supposed to mean.
> >
> > You create something beautiful and leave it there, therefore you
> > leave a beautiful thing. The adjective should precede the noun.
> >
> > They left no stone unturned.
> > They left everything broken.
> > He left the TV unrepaired although he was supposed to repair it.
> >
> > In all these cases, the 'thing' was already there.
> >
> > If I go somewhere and make something beautiful and leave it there,
> > I have left a solitary beautiful thing there.
> >
> > What do you think?
> I think it's dialogue, meant to be realistic and informal. In this
> context "single, solitary" is quite natural as a form of emphasis, and
> "thing beautiful" natural as an echo of "something beautiful".

+1

> It's a wee rhetorical surprise,

An "anastrophe".

> and so stronger than "beautiful thing".

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