often fluid and elegant and had a certain ring to them and a cadence and rhythm and je ne sais quoisFor preference I agree with all you say MG, but if those who prefer to hurtle through time feel a need to use newspaper headline language to speed their passage, who are we to deny them?
Those fluid and elegant words and sentence constructions are still there for us to use and be sure others will also continue to use them for us to read and savour (I have to allow *you to write savor no doubt, but I won't comment
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Then again those slow descriptive passages such as you find in James Fennimore Cooper's writing take some stamina to work through these days. Fine in their day no doubt... I'm thinking particularly of The Deerslayer which we 'did' at school for some strange reason. Purgatory on a hot summer afternoon
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