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