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