As someone who certainly writes using ampersands etc, I obviously have a
bias here, but Peter, when you say
>What doesn't work (for me, anyway) is to try
>to look new by using techniques that have already been used by someone
>else.
I'm led to ask: but, except fpr a very few of us, what writer does NOT use
techniques that have already been used by someone else?
It's the way we use them that counts, n'est-pas?
Douglas Barbour
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