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12 "Young writers often suppose that style is a garnish for the meat of
13 prose, a sauce by which a dull dish is made palatable. Style has no
14 such separate entity; it is nondetachable, unfilterable. The beginner
15 should approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he is
16 approaching, no other; and he should begin by turning resolutely away
17 from all devices that are popularly believed to indicate style--all
18 mannerisms, tricks, adornments. The approach to style is by way of
19 plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity."
21 --Strunk and White, "The Elements of Style"
23 ''And thus an American textbook, typical required reading for
24 10th-grade English students, unknowingly extols some virtues of
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