Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!Jamie.Zawinski@CMU-CS-SPICE.ARPA From: Jamie.Zawinski@CMU-CS-SPICE.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Donaldson's Excessively Distended Verbosity Message-ID: <2418@topaz.ARPA> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 16:58:56 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.2418 Posted: Thu Jun 27 16:58:56 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Jun-85 01:58:48 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 23 From: Jamie.Zawinski@CMU-CS-SPICE I think that this quote of a quote from Chalker's VENGANCE OF THE DANCING GODS says it all: "When chronicling great adventures, the chronicler should take pains to use words that even the most educated of readers must look up. this may make your chronicle very slow, if not impossible to read, but it will be critically acclaimed throughout the land, for none will wish to admit that they didn't understand and relish every word. Instead, they will use the comfort with such phraseology as a limitus test for intelectual equality. No one may ever really read you, but all will be forced to purchase a copy of the chronicle to convince others that they did, and your brilliance and intellect will be permanently unquestioned." --The Romantic Saga Writer's Manual of Style, Marahbar --Jamie jwz@cmu-cs-spice