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[Snarf Zagyg]

Sure but that's also less aspirational, I'd say.

Also, and I feel this is important, less funny

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.

 

[Autumnal]

 

[Gradine]

The Elements of Style.

I mean, you're right, but also

 

[Alzrius]

I want to stress that while I agree with you in principle, the counterpoint has merit as well.

Leaving aside a Descartes-style descent into solipsism, there's an understanding that qualitative values can be generally agreed upon (including the related terms and definitions, at least to a certain degree) by most people, and thusly compared. That's orthogonal to the issue of degustabus non est disputandum, not a rejection of it. Likewise, the correlation between the popularization of creativity (particularly within a capitalist context) and the degradation of quality is just that: a correlation. One doesn't necessarily have to cause the other, even if we still generally agree that there's a relationship involved.

 

[Ryujin]

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.

You might just be saving them from a long, drawn out death by cirrhosis.

 

[trappedslider]

You might just be saving them from a long, drawn out death by cirrhosis.

What do you get when you mix alcohol and literature?
Tequila Mockingbird
Ernest Hemingway

 

[billd91]

What do you get when you mix alcohol and literature?

Given the number of alcoholic authors, you get... literature.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Given the number of alcoholic authors, you get... literature.

Work is the scourge of the drinking class.

 

[Reynard]

Given the number of alcoholic authors, you get... literature.

So you are saying instead of drinking less, I should write more?

 

[Ryujin]

Work is the scourge of the drinking class.

- Oscar Wilde.