It was the mistaken word, I swear! I wouldn't have come up with such a thing if I had just used "FLOWING." But floating... how could it be anything else?
Your reply made me think of the essay by Edgar Allan Poe on The Raven, where he almost claims that when you want to write that kind of poem, The Raven is the only poem you can arrive at.
Yes, The Philosophy of Composition is precious. Poe knew how to make the perfect poem and when explaining how to make the perfect poem he had to refer to the perfect poem that he had of course already written.
It was the mistaken word, I swear! I wouldn't have come up with such a thing if I had just used "FLOWING." But floating... how could it be anything else?
Your mind works in unusual and mysterious ways.
Your reply made me think of the essay by Edgar Allan Poe on The Raven, where he almost claims that when you want to write that kind of poem, The Raven is the only poem you can arrive at.
Yes, The Philosophy of Composition is precious. Poe knew how to make the perfect poem and when explaining how to make the perfect poem he had to refer to the perfect poem that he had of course already written.