... Brevity in speech and in writing is a quality that was recognized by a supremely talented wordsmith and the preeminent practitioner of English writing, William Shakespeare. In Act II, Scene II of Hamlet, while delivering a report to the king and queen, Polonius delivers the following: "This business is well ended. My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what ... might have taken issue with this metaphor - he preferred to think of writing as a workman's craft: "Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over". (Hemingway, Short 192) Kathleen Mo...

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