She talks in couplets, she steers by lightning

[cyrano]

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/download-classics.html
Thanks to Julian--article on a Gutenberg-esq Google Books project, with out-of-copyright texts in .pdf format. Yay books!
I love Richard Thompson's lyrics. Usually his music too, but he uses words like a knife, and etches images with them. You? Me? Us? is currently in my player and the current source of examples of this art. I read the liner notes and despair of ever bothering to write anything because, by comparison, it's a steaming pile.

Comments

[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

I don't know, Shakespeare was a good writer and quite a few have written after him. So was Byron and Keats and Joyce and Woodehouse and Eco and Austin and.....

...suck it up and write!

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the feeling fades--it's temporary.
(Picking nits, it's Austen. Although Denise Austin writes a hell of a weight loss manual, I hear.)