Unabombast, Festering Manifesto
John Roca
tribe at primenet.com
Wed Sep 20 21:36:56 CDT 1995
Hmmmmm....says a lot about the ability, or lack thereof, of college
professors to teach writing. However, I will assume that you read the
manifesto and can critique the same. Interesting how the intelligentia
criticizes writing style when they are the focus of an attack.
This is not a flame! Honest.
John
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On Wed, 20 Sep 1995, Daniel Stein wrote:
> It couldn't be Pynchon - no one who writes that well could blather on for
> nearly a hundred pages writing with (according to K. Sale):
>
> > the leaden language and stilted diction, the fondness for sociological
> >jargon and >psychobabble, and the repeated use of "we argue that" and "we
> >now discuss" and the >like, (that) make it certain that this was written
> >by someone whose writing style, and >probably whole intellectual
> >development, was arrested in college
>
>
> Daniel J. Stein {; < 0> stein at magma.geol.ucsb.edu
> Geological Sciences http://www.geol.ucsb.edu/~stein
> University of California (805) 893-8130 (voice)
> Santa Barbara, CA 93106 (805) 893-2314 (fax)
>
> ...In the country of the bland, the one odd man is king.
>
>
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