Title: Why would you want to strip the glorious English language
Product review: down to its bare essentials? ON WRITING WELL preaches a lean, clipped writing style that essentially neuters any sense of lyricism or music in language. It's like saying we should all live in Minsk, all buildings should be gray, there should be no leaves on trees, and you go to prison for using an adverb. As Andrei Codrescu once said after his visit to a monastic Shaker home: "No smoke, no drink, no sex, No Thanks! "
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