# Posted 6:17 PM by Patrick Belton
MORE SATURDAY NIGHT READING: Ben Yagoda, writing in the
Chronicle of Higher Education,
contrasts the Strunk-and-White minimalist approach to writing style (thus Orwell: 'good prose is like a windowpane'), with the therapeutic approach under which 'the object, from page one to the end, is self-expression, self-fulfillment ... I almost said self-abuse.' The last is the view of the postmoderns and authors of popular
ars scriptoria tracts hawked at Borders, but also that of the Sophists and the Romantics. Both, according to Yagoda, are fatally incompete without the other.
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