Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 17:28:55 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Produced by PhpWiki 1.3.2-jeffs-hacks) X-Rcs-Id: $Id: Help%2FGoodStyle,v 1.1 2005-11-21 22:19:00 rurban Exp $ Content-Type: application/x-phpwiki; pagename=Help%2FGoodStyle; pgsrc_version="2 $Revision: 1.1 $"; flags=""; markup=2; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary "Young writers often suppose that style is a garnish for the meat of prose, a sauce by which a dull dish is made palatable. Style has no such separate entity; it is nondetachable, unfilterable. The beginner should approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he is approaching, no other; and he should begin by turning resolutely away from all devices that are popularly believed to indicate style--all mannerisms, tricks, adornments. The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity." --Strunk and White, "The Elements of Style" ''And thus an American textbook, typical required reading for 10th-grade English students, unknowingly extols some virtues of WabiSabi'' --scummings ---- PhpWikiDocumentation