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On Listening: Salvatore Scibona Tunes in to Detail
Posted: February 21, 2010
Tags: Italian, free indirect style, immigrant, community, Flannery O'Connor
“I think for a writer you don’t see a thing until you use the word for it and the more precise the word you can use the more precisely you see it. On the other hand, the word is an instrument in order to lead you to the thing and you can spin a whole lot of words around yourself for years and years and years, as the jeweler does, until it gets to the point where your primary relationship is with the language and not with the thing.”
