Quotation
by Joshua Blanchard
I don’t mean to be rude: my own taste for shorter and flashier books is probably explained by the many hours of Donkey Kong I played in my youth.
- James Parker, New York Times Review of Books
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I liked this, too: “Bad prose, on the other hand, is arrestingly weird. It stops the clocks and twists the wires. It knits the brow in perplexity: What the hell is this? What’s going on here?”
That’s precisely the experience of grading papers.