Apropos of nothing very much, I recently read a piece about Paul Simon where he talks about finding a songwriting style that goes back and forth between the "heightened" colloquial, and a more sophisticated language. This gives him a chance to capture both the "something anybody might say, he just said it better or tighter" and reflection or irony or deepening the sentiment. What makes this interesting is that is so obviously captures a feature of his style that is obvious once it is pointed out to you, and it is something he has evolved out from an unconscious pattern into a conscious one.

Yours, Peter T.