My blogs

Blogs I follow

Location	United Kingdom
Introduction	Writer. For the moment, I will be concentrating on my 'Close Reading' blog. The concept is fairly simple: I will analyse samples of language that interest me for various reasons, etymological, grammatical, social, philosophical, semantic, and so on. I've worked for some years as a proofreader and editor and I am a naturally slow reader, so I tend to home in on linguistic details. Some people can find this tendency pedantic, but on this blog I intend to treat it as and make of it a virtue. The English language has been, for many decades now, neglected and abused. I hope to do something, at least, however modest and ultimately futile, to resist that general trend. I am also very interested in the relationship between language and thought. My published works are listed here: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3037624.Quentin_S_Crisp If you would like to support me, my Patreon account is here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=27300938&fan_landing=true Please excuse the lack of paragraph breaks in this profile.
Interests	Language, philosophy, imagination.
Favorite movies	Freaks (Tod Browning)
Favorite books	Nagai Kafu, Mishima Yukio