Another apriori bashing of AtD

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Mark Brawner schrieb:

> 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.

It doesn't. But even if it did, it wouldn't.

Thomas