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In reply to the discussion: What Book had the biggest influence on you? [View all]3catwoman3
(24,388 posts)I love to read, and I love words and especially exquisitely precise use of words. Because of that, I was thinking of Roget's Thesaurus, but thought that would sound kind of crazy. Reading thru this thread, I was relieved to see that one other DUer had made the same choice.
I can still remember spending quite a long time on a high school writing assignment, searching for just the right word to explain how an author had given qualities to one of the characters. I debated the shades of meaning of endow, imbue, endue, and indue, and ended up choosing indue. This would have been in 1968, and I no longer remember the book nor the author, but I remember the joy of finding just the right word.
It is an exercise I still relish.
I also enjoy re-reading books I have loved, often just to enjoy once again a particular author's skill with word use.
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