O-Land News Junkie Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 A former high school English teacher writes, Jan. 10, about the virtue of letter writers being thrifty with their words and cites what she calls the valuable advice of a fictional father to his sons: "Now do it again, but shorter." "Valuable" advice? Not hardly. [....] My goodness, can you even begin to imagine the catastrophic loss to the worlds of literature and philosophy had Ayn Rand been preoccupied with word restraint in her voluminous and incomparable writings.http://randex.org/index.php/weblog/dubious_advice/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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