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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab
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To: The Philosopher who wrote (3139)7/8/1999 11:17:00 PM
From: Achilles  Read Replies (2) of 4711
 
You make some excellent points and I want to retract what I said, if only to tentatively suggest (perhaps only to be proven wrong again) that great prose about trivial subjects can still be good, but that great writing requires a great theme. You'll forgive me if I retreat into something I know more about, Greek prose. Xenophon's prose style is every bit as good mechanically as Plato's or Herodotus' or Thucydides'. But what the last three wrote was much more profound, and so I regard them as the greater prose stylists. Is that more acceptable?
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