"Passing Remarks."
"In scenery, I like flat country.
In life, I don't like much to happen.
In personalities, I like mild, colorless people.
And in colors, I prefer gray to brown.
My wife, a vivid girl from the mountains
says, then why did you choose me?
Mildly, I lower my brown eyes.
There are so many things admirable people do not
understand."
When I was learning to write, I thought
maybe part of the project was to learn to use
diction, striking diction.
And I don't believe that to be true anymore.
I think that the thing to do or the thing that appeals to me,
is just to have events when you write.
So if you'd start low enough, any little elevation
would have the same effect as starting ordinary and then
getting extremely high.
So to say in scenery, I like and in life, I
don't like and so on, and then to come to a line in which you
have this wildly imaginative diction saying, I prefer,
and in colors, I prefer, suddenly this is really great.
So you don't have to try very hard.