Crots
Winston Weathers and Tom Wolfe on Crots - "In its most intense form, the crot is characterized by a certain abruptness in its termination. 'As each crot breaks off,' Tom Wolfe says, 'it tends to make one's mind search for some point that must have just been made—presque vu!—almost seen! In the hands of a writer who really understands the device, it will have you making crazy leaps of logic, leaps you never dreamed of before.'
"The provenance of the crot may well be in the writer's 'note' itself--in the research note, in the sentence or two one jots down to record a moment or an idea or to describe a person or place. The crot is essentially the 'note' left free of verbal ties with other surrounding notes. . . .
"The general idea of unrelatedness present in crot writing suggests correspondence—for those who seek it—with the fragmentation and even egalitarianism of contemporary experience, wherein the events personalities, places of life have no particular superior or inferior status to dictate priorities of presentation." (Winston Weathers, An Alternate Style: Options in Composition. Boynton/Cook, 1980)
