The feeling the everlasting feeling  

If you, like me, are one of those who enjoyed diagramming sentences when you were in grammar school -- and by the way, I think it's only fair to include linguists in the bunch (because what is linguistics if not an extension of our primal urge to diagram sentences?) even though their diagrams are in ways more sophisticated and may even have the purpose of explaining ambiguities not admitted by any schoolbook I recall -- but if in any case you are a diagrammer, then you should read, courtesy of ALDaily, this cute article about the art of diagramming sentences, about just what it is that compels us to diagram, and -- although the article, mostly a fond and untechnical reminiscence, touches on the point only obliquely -- about the inadequacies of diagramming, a mathematical exercize rather than an investigation of the aesthetic or the poetic, when it comes to really telling us anything about how to write a sentence.