When looking up a word in the lexicon , the sample distribution sentences ply below the definition always facilitate give context for words . While helpful , these examples can be unknown or oddly poetic . Designer and illustrator Jez Burrows see potency in those single sentences , and decided to wind them together to create unretentive floor , which turn out to be oddly poignant .
“ I just happened to be looking up some definitions in the lexicon when one of the example sentences really skip over out at me , ” BurrowstoldIt ’s squeamish That . “ It was for the intelligence ‘ study , ’ and the sentence read : ‘ He perched on the edge of the seam , a study in confusion and misery . ’ The language of dictionary definitions is all very plain and functional , so watch this incredibly labored and resonant sentence in amongst it all really struck me and seemed like the beginning of a short tale . ”
burrow stitches these vignette together and keeps them on a blog calledDictionary Stories . Often he will look for one really good lesson as a climb up off period and lick from there . The creative person keeps a big collection of sentence on Indian file and tries to assemble them by picking various conviction from the collection — like collaging with words .
“ I have an tremendous schoolbook filing cabinet of hundreds of sentences that I think might go somewhere , " he said . " I love seeing sentences which I swear ca n’t be used , then finding another that unlock the potential for narrative . Although I ’m not so indisputable I ’ll ever be able-bodied to use ‘ The country is heavily dependent on banana exports . ’ ”
[ h / t : It ’s Nice That ]
