"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera." - Dorothea Lange

Friday, August 24, 2007

ordinary language

In yesterday’s obituary for Grace Paley on NPR, Neda Ulaby wrote:

Paley told her students at Sarah Lawrence College that writers need two ears: One ear, she said, for the literary canon, the stories and poems you study in school, and another for “family and childhood and specifically the ordinary language of your time — which, though I use the word ‘ordinary,’ is always extraordinary, I think.”

early 1950's, from my family's photo album

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