Excerpt from O. Henry: William Sidney Porter Grammar, to 0. Henry, says an English critic,1 was only one way of saying a thing. He had others equally e icient when he wanted, for he was a master, and not a servant, of words. For two years in Texas his favourite companion was a dictionary - which he studied as lovingly as some men study poetry. 0. Henry was a conformist and a non-conformist but conformity and non-conformity were governed by the same law, the law of effect. Few writers knew words better than he or felt more ...
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Excerpt from O. Henry: William Sidney Porter Grammar, to 0. Henry, says an English critic,1 was only one way of saying a thing. He had others equally e icient when he wanted, for he was a master, and not a servant, of words. For two years in Texas his favourite companion was a dictionary - which he studied as lovingly as some men study poetry. 0. Henry was a conformist and a non-conformist but conformity and non-conformity were governed by the same law, the law of effect. Few writers knew words better than he or felt more instinctively their limitations as well as their possibilities. Words had more than meaning to 0. Henry: they had avor, a avor unknown to Noah Webster, but recognized by every poet and prose writer who has enriched the resources of our speech. To most writers the dictionary says You must, to 0. Henry it said You may, and the freedom thus imparted has contributed no little of the sparkle and humor and suggestiveness of O. Henry's vocabulary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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