Love in a Dead Language - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Love in a Dead Language: A Romance [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Publisher (Excerpt), Local Library] by Lee Siegel Love in a Dead Language is described by its author Lee Siegel as “a translation of [the Kamasutra of Vatsyayana] as well as the Sanskrit commentaries with extensive notes on the history of interpretations of the text […]

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Something I love about 500-tap microblogs (fairly new to me) as a writing process, is it forces me to choose active verbs, cut back on adverbs, and find evocative metaphors to replace long-winded descriptions. Now, when I write in longer form, these tips stay with me.

I've been teaching college writing for 20 years, but I'm learning new things here. I think a microblog assignment will be part of my courses from now on, for the skills it can foster.

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