Reverse-engineer what you read. If it feels like good writing, what makes it good? If it’s awful, why?Prose is a window onto the world. Let your readers see what you are seeing by using visual, concrete language.Don’t go meta. Minimize concepts about concepts, like “approach, assumption, concept, condition, context, framework, issue, level, model, perspective, process, … Continue reading Steven Pinker’s Rules For Writing
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Emily Wilson on Translations and Language – Conversations with Tyler
"I think Homer is psychologically truthful and ethically helpful. The whole question about, 'Is it literature’s job or poetry’s job to train a politician?' — I’m not sure that’s quite the right way to see it. By inhabiting worldviews which aren’t our own, we can grow in some way, which doesn’t necessarily have to be, 'I agree … Continue reading Emily Wilson on Translations and Language – Conversations with Tyler
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