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To: Dayuhan who wrote (3135)7/8/1999 9:13:00 PM
From: Achilles  Respond to of 4711
 
I'm not sure Wodehouse qualifies: satire is, after all, far from trivial. Of course I could just be wrong. It has happened before.



To: Dayuhan who wrote (3135)7/8/1999 9:46:00 PM
From: jbe  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 4711
 
I am not sure that I would characterize P.G. Wodehouse's prose style as "great," Steven. Besides, he wrote fiction. and fiction follows a different path, as it were, from that of straight expository prose.

To be more precise: two of the major virtues of good expository prose are clarity and precision. In fiction, one often seeks ambiguity; multi-layered meanings, rather than a single clear meaning. And so forth.

Joan


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