@leighelse
> modern writing at its worst does
> not consist in picking out words
> for the sake of their meaning and
> inventing images in order to make
> the meaning clearer. It consists in
> gumming together long strips of
> words which have already been
> set in order by someone else, and
> making the results presentable by
> sheer humbug
Yes, this does indeed remind me of something contemporary 🙂
