{"id":214,"date":"2002-01-14T15:09:42","date_gmt":"2002-01-14T21:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/uncategorized\/clear-and-simple-as-the-truth"},"modified":"2019-03-09T09:31:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T15:31:56","slug":"clear-and-simple-as-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/bookshelf\/clear-and-simple-as-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Clear and Simple as the Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<!-- 2002-01-14 15:09 -->I went to sleep trying to come up with a fitting tagline for this weblog. I woke up with the words &#8220;plain and simple as the truth&#8221; in mind. The phrase had a familiar ring, but I couldn&#8217;t place it. I searched on the web. I searched amazon.com. I couldn&#8217;t find anything.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"cont\">\nThen Sunday, on the third floor of the library, I remembered. It was the title of a book on writing. Well, almost. I found the book: Clear and Simple as the Truth. I&#8217;d read about it in The Common Reader catalog. I had checked it out, several years ago. I checked it out again.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"cont\">\nMystery solved! But now I&#8217;m in search of a new tagline.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n&#8220;&#8230;writing is an intellectual activity, not a bundle of skills. Writing proceeds from thinking.&#8221; &#8212; p. 3\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n&#8220;[Style] is often understood as the inessential or even disreputable member of a two-term set: style and substance&#8230;and, in the traditional American idiom, there is a persistent suggestion that we would be better off without it.&#8221; &#8212; p. 9\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n&#8220;We are trapped by our unconscious styles if we cannot recognize them as styles.&#8221; &#8212; p. 12\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- 2016-10-25. Updated. Deleted broken links.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose <br \/>\nFrancis-Noel Thomas &#038; Mark Turner<br \/>\nPrinceton University Press. 1994.<\/p>\n<p>This book defines one type of style, classic, and its elemental principles. The classic style is contrasted to other styles, such as, romantic, contemplative, and reflexive.<\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/bookshelf\/clear-and-simple-as-the-truth\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,323],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":953,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}