spilling-point

Updated: May 27, 2025

I filled it with climaxes, both wet and dry. I had a fine wet climax on page fourteen, where I had made a little mark in the margin which meant "cry here." This was the spilling-point of the wet climax. I was to cry on the lefthand side of the page. I committed it all to memory, and then went to a lady who taught expression, to get it expressed. You have to get it expressed.

Ralph Parlette - The University of Hard Knocks