Spinning Without Completetion

Forming a sentence is one of the most important feats for a writer to accomplish. Choosing each word, each comma, each capital letter is of the utmost importance. All of these choices create a spinning effect for the author of the sentence in question. The correspondent needs to write the sentence, then 'spin' around to mend and reassess what thoughts have just been portrayed. Dillard shows this effect on page 7 of The Writing Life. "How set yourself spinning?" is such an unwieldy sentence, that the reader is forced to go back to the first word to make sure they have read correctly what was written. This sentence is missing the word "do", which implies that the author wants the reader to miss out on the idea of "do" itself. "Do" suggests completion or wholeness, yet, throughout The Writing Life, Dillard hints at lacking wholeness mentally and physically. The discarding of such a significant word relays the idea that Dillard toiled over the idea of retaining the word or giving a conventionally minor word such weight in the sentence. Dillard toiled with the idea of lacking wholeness.