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