>>And "turgid, turbid, clumsy" are not a guarantee of precision, God knows.
. . . i'm sure she does . . . of course, most turbid writing is anything
but
clear, the messiness of the writing reflecting messiness in the thinking .
. .
but to the question, "How many will survive on substance alone?" i'd
like to think the answer is anyone who really has something to say, and
to the question "Who would read Kant if it were not he?" i think the only
reply
that matters is that he would in fact NOT be he if he wrote "new yorker"
prose
. . . . but i think we can all eagerly sign on the dotted line when wayne
says
that "there is an obligation not to make it more obscure than it need be"
mike
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