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Originally posted by Tim Murphy:
.... Tom ....is saying ... that the matter, not the style, are indubitably Murphy's. However, I'd like to think that the method of the writing is also distinctive, that whether I am writing about Pope John Paul II or Feeney, there is a way that I work my sentences through the easy confines of rhymed pentameter that "sounds" like me. Clive once forcefully argued this at Deep End, and I hope he's right.
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Tim,
I did not say that. I said,
"This is what I mean by identifiable style. Tim Murphy has accomplished this elusive feat. Had I put one of these stanzas in the four on my recent thread on general, people would have picked up on it immediately. So I agree with Clive.
Your style is not prose-dependant, and has a patiste method of approaching subject, and is not dependant on props, as I call them. Think Matisse, for an artist analogy, where the image (and the voice) is always discernable and presented rather than captured or 'talked-out.'
TJ
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