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To: Neocon who wrote (53153)	8/26/1999 3:34:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

"it should be obvious that one can improve upon "naturalness" in writing as in anything else ..." The use of similes and metaphors and other artificual figures of speech nearly always impedes communication, just as driving into a sandtrap or the rough impedes the purpose of golf (as stupid as it may be). Consider Shakespeare's attack on metaphore and simile in his hilarious sonnet CXXX ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun") which mocks everything love poets ever wrote. "Fancy writing" is the bane of communication.