Comments on: reviewing book review jargon (and reviving “eschew”) http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/03/27/reviewing-book-review-jargon-and-reviving-eschew/ "breathless punditry" and "one-breath poetry" with David Giacalone Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:33:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: David Giacalone http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/03/27/reviewing-book-review-jargon-and-reviving-eschew/#comment-169683 David Giacalone Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:53:39 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/03/27/reviewing-book-review-jargon-and-reviving-eschew/#comment-169683 Thanks for the citation, Roberta. Having twenty-two rules seems a bit like surplusage to me, but the general rule to eschew verbal excess is a fine one in literature, not to mention authoring haiku (and weblogs, too -- a goal I need to keep in mind more often). And, I'm pleased to have Twain on my side of the Great Eschew Debate. I heard a newscast from the night Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated the other evening, and was pleased when "eschew" came out of the mouth of Chet Huntley. One of <em>your</em> reviewers called "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Unworn-Necklace-Roberta-Beary/dp/1903543223/ref=sr_1_1/104-9212552-8069535?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1191963889&sr=1-1" rel="nofollow">The Unworn Necklace</a>" compelling, but I'm not naming names. I certainly felt compelled to <a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2007/10/09/the-unworn-necklace-roberta-bearys-gems/" rel="nofollow">praise it mysel</a>f. Thanks for the citation, Roberta. Having twenty-two rules seems a bit like surplusage to me, but the general rule to eschew verbal excess is a fine one in literature, not to mention authoring haiku (and weblogs, too — a goal I need to keep in mind more often). And, I’m pleased to have Twain on my side of the Great Eschew Debate. I heard a newscast from the night Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated the other evening, and was pleased when “eschew” came out of the mouth of Chet Huntley.

One of your reviewers called “The Unworn Necklace” compelling, but I’m not naming names. I certainly felt compelled to praise it myself.

]]> By: Roberta Beary http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/03/27/reviewing-book-review-jargon-and-reviving-eschew/#comment-169681 Roberta Beary Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:22:59 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/03/27/reviewing-book-review-jargon-and-reviving-eschew/#comment-169681 see Mark Twain on James Fenimore Cooper. Twain writes: There are nineteen rules governing literary art in domain of romantic fiction -- some say twenty-two. In "Deerslayer," Cooper violated eighteen of them... Rule 14 Eschew surplusage. see Mark Twain on James Fenimore Cooper. Twain writes: There are nineteen rules governing literary art in domain of romantic fiction — some say twenty-two. In “Deerslayer,” Cooper violated eighteen of them… Rule 14 Eschew surplusage.

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