Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 17:28:55 -0500Mime-Version: 1.0 (Produced by PhpWiki 1.3.2-jeffs-hacks)X-Rcs-Id: $Id: BuonStile,v 1.3 2002/01/27 23:48:42 carstenklapp Exp $Content-Type: application/x-phpwiki;  pagename=BuonStile;  flags="";  charset=iso-8859-1Content-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