Another apriori bashing of AtD

[Mark Brawner]

Ya Sam quoted:

>"Very few of the books I've read wouldn't have benefited from some
> good editing - and a great many of them could have been usefully cut by a
> third. And it's almost axiomatic that any book of more than 1,000 pages will
> have more than its fair share of dreary bits. This, I'm sure, is heresy in
> many quarters; critics will argue that the languor and cadences are an
> integral part of the artistic whole. But you don't have to look hard in
> Dickens or Proust to find bits that can't usefully be cut."

That last sentence doesn't make any sense.