Dear Stanislav,
You might be interested in the Australian writer, David. Malouf's essay on memory, 12 Edmonstone St.
http://www.randomhouse.com.au/books/david-malouf/12-edmonstone-street-9780099273783.aspx
Keith
On 20 Sep 2014, at 6:44 pm, "Stanislav Roudavski" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Down with S&W! Or Orwell's style and advice! Along with his didactic, propagandistic, journalistic prose (what Nabokov would have called "topical trash", written by someone whom he did call a "mediocre English [writer]".
Here is another link, in support of Gunnar's:
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28971276
I have written something about these issues myself below. Weak, because like S&W I find it hard to practice what I preach.
https://www.academia.edu/455074/Transparency_or_Drama_Extending_the_Range_of_Academic_Writing_in_Architecture_and_Design
Meanwhile, "at the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on." (Gogol)
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