Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2012 13:46:13 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Produced by PhpWiki 1.4.0) Content-Type: application/x-phpwiki; pagename=Help%2FGoodStyle; flags=PAGE_LOCKED%2CEXTERNAL_PAGE; markup=2; charset=UTF-8 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 [[Help:WabiSabi|Wabi Sabi]// --scummings ---- [[PhpWikiDocumentation]]