¶ Writing Fuller: R. B.,: His Style
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Now, writing about Bucky has its peculiar difficulties, of which the leading one is that it is almost impossible except in his own idiom. There is a very good reason for this-- that his creative thinking, does genuinely seem to be done in the grammar and syntax he uses when speaking. Problems are simultaneously bulldozed frontally, undermined termitically, and outflanked by relative clauses lasting up to six weeks. All this is fine while Bucky is telling the tale himself, except possibly for people sitting at the back of large audiences who cannot follow his facial expressions or the subtleties of his hand-actions. Comprehensibility survives into print, if the text is Bucky’s own, but if it is written by another hand. … trouble! In kobertark’s 1960 book on Bucky, the interference between his own manner of writing and !ucky’s manner of thinking, produces a style that falls apart-- ponderous and pedestrian on the maths, which it fails to illuminate, turgid when it turns to narrative, which it fails to animate.
