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10 "Young writers often suppose that style is a garnish for the meat of
11 prose, a sauce by which a dull dish is made palatable. Style has no
12 such separate entity; it is nondetachable, unfilterable. The beginner
13 should approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he is
14 approaching, no other; and he should begin by turning resolutely away
15 from all devices that are popularly believed to indicate style--all
16 mannerisms, tricks, adornments. The approach to style is by way of
17 plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity."
19 --Strunk and White, "The Elements of Style"
21 //And thus an American textbook, typical required reading for
22 10th-grade English students, unknowingly extols some virtues of
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