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Monday, September 01, 2008

Shakespeare's Labour Day advice for writers


From Love's Labour's Lost, Act 5, scene ii:
Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation, figures pedantical; these summer flies have blown me full of maggot ostentation: I do forswear them.