[dd74]

The brilliance of English within the hands of brilliant writers is how they can manipulate the language to cause very deep effects.

For example, in What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Carver's use of minimalism (though he never acknowledged this use), reinforced the desperation of his characters which inevitably spilled over onto the reader.

Hubert Selby in Last Exit To Brooklyn avoided apostrophes to speed up the language - emphasizing the rapidly changing lives of his characters, particularly Tra La La, and how fast the 50s were in the redefining of America.

EE Cummins was fantastic at suppression - by use of the lower case, he put the author in the background and the language up front, which in its imagery, needed no proper punctuation.