Stan
2011-11-25 10:03:37
I have to say I’ve come to enjoy this author’s essays, despite their ridiculous overuse of difficult words (an affectation most people outgrow by the time they’re out of college), the uniformly long and complex sentences which put the reader to sleep, the piling of abstract terms and concepts that never get properly defined, the pretentious invocation of big names (“Toynbee said this,” “Spengler said that,” “St. Augustine said this,” “T.S. Eliot” said that,” etc. ad nauseum). It all makes for great comedy when read aloud!
