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Chan-Seung Lee
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 Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 1:48 am Post subject: which |
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| In stage five the fusing isn�t complete. The greatest artists still suffer pangs of doubt and failure of inspiration. So do co-creators. In particular, there is the danger of trying to take over the process, which severs the alliance with God. Self-importance can halt progress for a long time. This is easy to trace in artists: reading a biography of Ernest Hemingway, you cringe as the balance of ego and genius tragically shifts. A writer gifted beyond measure in his thirties, Hemingway describes how his stories wrote themselves, how in magical moments he stood aside from the process and allowed it to happen. In the same mental state, the poet William Blake declared, �My words are mine and yet not mine.� |
1. What does 'the process' mean in the quote?
2. What does 'which' mean in the quote?
3. Can you paraphrase 'you cringe as the balance of ego' ?
4. What does 'it' mean in the quote?
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| Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2012 10:03 am Post subject: Re: which |
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| Chan-Seung Lee wrote: |
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| In stage five the fusing isn�t complete. The greatest artists still suffer pangs of doubt and failure of inspiration. So do co-creators. In particular, there is the danger of trying to take over the process, which severs the alliance with God. Self-importance can halt progress for a long time. This is easy to trace in artists: reading a biography of Ernest Hemingway, you cringe as the balance of ego and genius tragically shifts. A writer gifted beyond measure in his thirties, Hemingway describes how his stories wrote themselves, how in magical moments he stood aside from the process and allowed it to happen. In the same mental state, the poet William Blake declared, �My words are mine and yet not mine.� |
1. What does 'the process' mean in the quote?
2. What does 'which' mean in the quote?
3. Can you paraphrase 'you cringe as the balance of ego' ?
4. What does 'it' mean in the quote?
Thanks. |
1. I would need to see the previous section of text for a frame of reference. Being able to read something isn't the same as understanding it, in the context it is written.
2. "Which" refers to "trying to take over". Trying to take over severs the alliance with God.
3. The entire phrase needs to be looked at as one part. "You cringe as the balance of ego and genius tragically shifts." Ego is not highly regarded, so as the balance shifts, it does so in a tragic way, with the scale tipping toward ego. The reader would be benefited to have previous knowledge of Hemingway's work. This is a higher-level reference. (I am not incredibly familiar with Hemingway myself, having only read one or two books of his.)
4. "It" = "the process" of his stories being created.
Chan-Seung, I hope this helps. |
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IanT
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| Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 12:41 am Post subject: |
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I think "the process" means the process of writing without the writer having to do anything, because the writer is connected with god, or something greater, so the writing just happens without any effort.
Hope helps.
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Tao
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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The Process refers to the creating�to take over the process means to do it alone, without God.
When something is stated better than others can say it, why paraphrase?
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IanT
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 4:34 am Post subject: |
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| Tao wrote: |
When something is stated better than others can say it, why paraphrase? |
Well, because "better" is not necessarily "most useful" to a student of language.
You might paraphrase to test your own understanding (or to allow others to do so), or to put the idea into words more easily memorable for you, or to be able to repeat the idea to others with more limited vocabularies, or simply to feel that you've made it your own.
Live and let live, eh? 
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Tao
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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Oh,my�you don't get it. Enough said...
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| Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 3:04 am Post subject: |
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| Tao wrote: |
| Oh,my�you don't get it. Enough said... |
No no, my dear fellow, not nearly enough said!
If I don't get it, please, be helpful, help me to get it. This is a Help Center, after all.
Please don't just walk away and leave me feeling small!
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