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Litotes, pronounced lie-toe-tease, is a literary technique whereby you express things in a negative formulation. What would it look like if a whole story was written in this fashion?
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Read MoreI’ve been taking a short and very bland story and rewriting it in different styles. This time I’ve chosen cockney (defined as someone born within the sound of Bow bells, in other words a true working class Londoner) rhyming slang.
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This article is part of series I am writing called Experiments in Style. It is my version of Raymond Queneau’s Exercises in Style.
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The results are different depending on which dictionary you use; there is nothing to stop you cheating…
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Although the result is nonsensical, I think it has a musical quality of its own.
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In this version, I’ve decided to pass the story over to you.
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In the middle of the night, I will wake up (if you can call being semi-conscious being awake), walk purposefully towards the door to go to the bathroom — and almost knock myself out.
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