“The truth is that most US academic prose is appalling - pompous, abstruse, claustral, inflated, euphuistic, pleonastic, solecistic, sesquipidelian, Heliogabaline, occluded, obscure, jargon-ridden, empty: resplendently dead.”
Who, tragically, hung himself a few days ago. Which means that future readers will have an even harder time understanding him. But you should really find out for yourself. Because he really was a genius. So, so sad.




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