Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.
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