A very interesting contribution, indeed, Clive. I especially enjoyed your analysis of sentence structure, rhetorical patterning and plotting, as you have eloquently analyzed a problem that bothers me in a lot of writing (and speechifying) -- what I would term "glibness" – and which is a product of lapses in intellectual rigor to which my own writing is very susceptible. Fortunately, I am an attorney now, and I have the benefit of wise adversaries who are very keen to point out such lapses. I think poets are in need of such adversaries -- in addition to advocates, of course.
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