Example's of An Artist's Craftsmanship at Work - 4
We circle back now to the second example of an artist's craftsmanship at work, this from Dear and Glorious Physician by Taylor Caldwell. We briefly addressed this superb writing in a recent post. But this time let's drill deeper. Our author is describing an incident in the flow of her story here. But we cannot miss the underlying evil that she's addressing as well: homosexual acts, for one, and child exploitation for another - something we now call child sex trafficking . We could of course simply reference the Bible's (God's Word) condemnation of homosexual acts. Nothing wrong with that. But those are dry words compared to our author's words. And sometimes dry words - simple declaratory sentences - can come and go without our paying much attention to them, beyond a more mental registering, perhaps intellectual assent to the truth of those words. But here our mere mental recognition is now riddled and prodded with words that elicit the raw emotions that Lu...
