> ... one does not obtain "nature" by merely removing opposition, wise or unwise. Nor can we know what is inevitable until we have tried good and hard to stop it...
> The enemy is not illiteracy but incomplete literacy---and since shit implies pretension it justifies reproof. There is no defense against the depredations of the brash except vigilance and no quarter given..
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41205414
#DisIneterested NOT #UnInterested #JacquesBarzun #Writing #PetPeeves. I think of Tufte on M$'s PP.