Dumbing it down, right down to the ground

Lady Antonia Fraser, in her diary of life with Harold Pinter titled “Must You Go?” recently published (to acclaim) by Weidenfield & Nicolson describes a taxi driver as: “ a burly man of suspicious aspect”. What a wonderful description. And in his poem to her the Novel Prize winner writes;

To Antonia

She dances in my life
Still you turn in my arms
Still we clasp
Still you swim in the big and brilliant bay
And come backing the wave
To my side
And you dance in my arms
And you turn
And stay in my clasp
Where I found you forever
In the only first time in my life
Which calls out again and again
In the light of this moon on our sea
In our fierce and young and tender tide
My dancer my bride

It's reading books such as Must You Go, which revel in the precise use of language, that makes reading such a pleasure. In the title too is a story. They met at a restaurant. They were both married. Not to each other. She was leaving then turned and walked over to Harold. Earlier she has sent him a note: scrawled on a serviette, which she, years later found he had kept. .: “You are right." she had scrawled. " Now shut up.”
She said goodbye to him and she turned to leave he asked: “Must you go”.
She did not. They fell in love and stayed in love. He died in 2008. There is pleasure in language but sadly, not as it moves to txt. Txt, in my opinion cnt say it with meaning. So I ask anyone reading this blog to post, as a comment, one sentence from a book or a poem, literature or junk fiction that moves you. (all credits due) I will gather these together and share what comes I get..
By-the-way, here’s a toast to Mike Nicol for what Leon de Kock describes in a crit of Mike's new crime novel Killer Country as a dumbing down of South African literature. I think it’s really time we got over ourselves and celebrated the fact that a writer of the stature of Mike Nicol can write crime (not God Help, us literary fiction) get low down and dirty.
Why do we have to be so serious about everything. Mike is about as dumbed down as Herman Charles Bosman is As dumbed down as Elmore Leonard, as Richard Price as Mickey Spillane, Ian Rankin and Dostoevsky - es[ecially Crime and Punishment. Well Ok, not the Russian but still.
So lets' climb down from our elitist towers, get over ourselves and love to read good writing wherever, whatever and whenever we find it. Well done Mike. By the way, horror of horrors, not only has Mike dumbed down local literature he has also published in paperback. Eek a penny ‘ orrible. The darkness the darkness.
For the record, if my memory serves me well, Leon enjoyed my anthology of poetry, Palm of My Soul, so the man clearly has taste. ☺ It’s nothing personal. It’s the elitist attitude that rankles. Us and them; the literati and the commoners.
So to begin; my favorite line by — in all modesty — me.” Sealed in a mesh of zip”.... from my poem Voyeur in Palm of My Soul (SNAILPRESS))
Now send me that line, that sentence from whatever source and lets see how dumbed down we who love language and what it conveys, really are.