|
Notes on Nuance
Note how the word "say" can create a rhetorically stylish pause.
"[T]he real purpose of the music is to insulate the poem from the rest of the programme. By this method you can have, say, a Shakespeare sonnet within three minutes of a news bulletin without, at any rate to my ear, any gross incongruity."
—George Orwell, "Poetry and the Microphone" (1945)
"But cholera’s tenure in the human body is short, about a week at most, provided the vibrio doesn’t kill the victim before that. In the nineteenth century, when cholera first emerged, that was hardly enough time to cover the nearly five thousand miles between the Sundarbans and, say, densely populated Europe."
—Sonia Shah, Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, From Cholera to Ebola and Beyond (2016)
|
