April 9 You know, a funny thing about style: when a sentence is iambic it seems to say better what it’s saying. The logic seems better. And not just the iambic, but when it flows better. And when you take out the extra words. Sometimes you could say either

I watch myself spending two hours on a paragraph when I know I’ve often written five to ten pages in that amount of times. I wonder if I’m losing brainpower. Didn’t I used to have a larger vocabulary, a quicker facility with English? Maybe, maybe not. I

I watch myself spending two hours on a paragraph when I know I’ve often written five to ten pages in that amount of times. I wonder if I’m losing brainpower. Didn’t I used to have a larger vocabulary, a quicker facility with English? Maybe, maybe not. I