Re: vive !

    '... (esp. if English is their first language) ...'

    I think that's the killer clause, Jim, for those of us who were
    brought up 'to look on the simple English sentence as among
    our noblest creations'. (And the simpler, plainer & shorter
    the better.)

    There's a resentment deep in all us surly, grunting, monosyllabic
    Anglo-Saxon villeins that remains intractably hostile to the curlicues
    & mysteries of these holy abbots recently arrived from Normandy.

    (The same hostility, I imagine, that raised such a storm of derision
    - or, as HE would doubtless point out, Derridgion? - in the Oxford
    faculties when someone moved to award him an honorary degree
    some years back I can't remember if they were successful.)
.
    One can't help be touched by John's impassioned & obviously sincere
    discipleship (which you now tell me has an actual personal basis.)
    At the same time, I can't very well deny the continuing evidence of my
own
    eyes. No matter how subtle or developed his thought, his hero can't
bloody
    well write.

    Scottie B.

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