Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 17:28:55 -0500Mime-Version: 1.0 (Produced by PhpWiki 1.3.2-jeffs-hacks)X-Rcs-Id: $Id: GoodStyle,v 1.1 2004/04/29 23:59:07 rurban Exp $Content-Type: application/x-phpwiki;  pagename=GoodStyle;  pgsrc_version="2 $Revision: 1.1 $";  flags="";  markup=2;  charset=UTF-8Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary"Young writers often suppose that style is a garnish for the meat ofprose, a sauce by which a dull dish is made palatable. Style has nosuch separate entity; it is nondetachable, unfilterable. The beginnershould approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he isapproaching, no other; and he should begin by turning resolutely awayfrom all devices that are popularly believed to indicate style--allmannerisms, tricks, adornments. The approach to style is by way ofplainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity."--Strunk and White, "The Elements of Style"''And thus an American textbook, typical required reading for10th-grade English students, unknowingly extols some virtues ofWabiSabi''--scummings----PhpWikiDocumentation