[lbo-talk] Prose Style, was Time to Get Religion

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>On Dec 7, 2006, at 6:05 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>>Carl Remick wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>As wordy novelists go, Conrad is infinitely more enjoyable than  Henry 
>>>James,
>>>who had a tendency (as has been famously noted) to chew more than  he 
>>>could bite off.
>>
>>Oh pish.
>
>I don't believe I've ever agreed with a "pish" before, but there's a  first 
>time for everything. The "chew more than he could bite off"  complaint 
>reminds me of the "too many notes" complaint about Bach.

Substitute "clauses" for "notes" and that's Henry James in a nutshell, IMO.  
James, dean of the fussbudget school of the American novel.

Carl

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