On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 20:03:36 -0400 Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
writes:
> >Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> >
> >>If any piece written by a leftist is unreadable, it can be
> >>corrected, through editing, proofreading, etc.
> >
> >What left publications do you read? Most of them emerge barely
> >readable or worse *after* editing.
> >
> >Someone once sent me two versions of a piece written for The
> >Progressive - one before and one after editing. The effect of the
> >editing was to make the piece stylistically and politically duller
> >(in both senses - boring and lack of sharpness).
> >
> >Why is it important that stuff not be dull? For one, there's a
> great
> >pleasure in reading good prose, and suspicion of pleasure is no
> >dobut one of the reasons left pubs are so dull (along with fear of
> >giving offense). But for two, there's also the issue of persuasion
> -
> >it'd be nice to appeal to people beyond the One True Church. I know
>
> >some people find this a pointless or silly goal, but I don't.
> >
> >Doug
>
> When I mentioned readability, I was simply speaking of grammar and
> clarity. What's dull and what's not dull is of necessity
> subjective.
> I enjoy reading _Monthly Review_, for instance, but the journal may
> be dull to those who do not share my political view or stylistic
> preference. Remember what Virginia Woolf thought of Byron's poetry:
Perhaps, Doug wishes to commend the prose style of Louis Proyect then?
Jim F.
>
> "I'm much impressed by the extreme badness of B.'s poetry" (@
> <http://www.englishhistory.net/byron/woolf.html>).
> --
> Yoshie
>
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