prose, a sauce by which a dull dish is made palatable. Style has no such separate entity; it is nondetachable, unfilterable. The beginner should approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he is approaching, no other; and he should begin by turning resolutely away from all devices that are popularly believed to indicate style--all mannerisms, tricks, adornments. The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity."
--Strunk and White, "The Elements of Style"
And thus an American textbook, typical required reading for 10th-grade English students, unknowingly extols some virtues of WabiSabi --scummings
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