June 11, 2005
A book on classic prose, reviewed by the blogosphere hero Dennis Dutton, godfather of Arts & Letters Daily, the one blog most well-read literate folks would take to a desert island.
[Classic prose] may look easy to write, but that is part of the trick...It is efficient and precise, and seems utterly spontaneous. However, that natural sound is not the sound of speech, Thomas and Turner say, it is the sound of writing.... For the classic style, “Truth is a grace that flees from earnest effort. The language of truth is ideally graceful speech.”
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