[lbo-talk] [New post] Don't get me wrong

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Sat Oct 29 10:56:16 PDT 2011


On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:27:34 -0400 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> You've averaged 8 posts a day this month - some days over 15 -
> a total of over 90,000 words.

And it's all been terrific. More shag, I say! More shag!


> In the immortal words of Lenin, better fewer but better.

Sounds more like those constipated jerks Strunk & White.

Back in the very best period of English prose they had a concept they called 'copia', which might be translated as 'copiousness' or 'abundance' or even 'luxuriance'. Pithy prose is a bourgeois shibboleth.

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Michael J. Smith mjs at smithbowen.net

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"I think the American people want a solemn ass as a President, and I think I will go along with them."

-- Barack Obama

(Okay, okay, it was really Calvin Coolidge.)



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