Max Leung
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Al said:
quote: Hopefully? You mean you can't tell? [/quote]
Heh, I'm just not used to her style of writing. My built-in "BS-o-meter" alarm goes off instinctively! I prefer more down-to-earth writing myself. For example, I find E.O. Wilson's style of prose is much more inviting and warm, as he doesn't use too much jargon that has been flung around in the last 20 years in most universities nowadays.
Yes, I know, guilt-by-association and all that...I'll keep an eye on her work. She had better back up her statements with well-researched facts, and not rely solely on flowery language like the other post-structuralists tend to do.
BTW, have you read Virgina Postrel's "The Future and Its Enemies"? ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684862697
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Max Leung
[Edited last by Max Leung on September 21, 2001 at 03:39 PM]
quote: Hopefully? You mean you can't tell? [/quote]
Heh, I'm just not used to her style of writing. My built-in "BS-o-meter" alarm goes off instinctively! I prefer more down-to-earth writing myself. For example, I find E.O. Wilson's style of prose is much more inviting and warm, as he doesn't use too much jargon that has been flung around in the last 20 years in most universities nowadays.
BTW, have you read Virgina Postrel's "The Future and Its Enemies"? ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684862697
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Max Leung
[Edited last by Max Leung on September 21, 2001 at 03:39 PM]
