I’ve decided to copy my wife's “dog-eared” feature. These posts will contain quotations from books, music, movies, and whatever else I feel like sharing.
Dem Professors Don’t Write So Good
“The truth is that most of U.S. academic prose is appalling—pompous, abstruse, claustral, inflated, euphuistic, pleonastic, solecistic, sesquipedalian, Heliogabaline, occluded, obscure, jargonridden, empty: resplendently dead.”
David Foster Wallace, “Authority and American Usage,” in Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2005), 81.
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