tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7781646534201708629.post1271329263498449253..comments2024-01-08T00:08:53.008+00:00Comments on ombhurbhuva: Essays on Freethinking and Plainspeaking by Leslie Stephen (1873)ombhurbhuvahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07789523088428270027noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7781646534201708629.post-10933728877183799342016-09-05T05:03:34.675+01:002016-09-05T05:03:34.675+01:00I agree and your comment sparked a confession and ...I agree and your comment sparked a confession and a reflection which staggered on to a post.ombhurbhuvahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07789523088428270027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7781646534201708629.post-40059713256581078592016-09-04T19:47:30.170+01:002016-09-04T19:47:30.170+01:00I have forgotten now which collection of L.S. it w...I have forgotten now which collection of L.S. it was that I was reading, but I realized I was completely charmed by the style and had not absorbed so much as a sentence of the content, and had to start over. Not that he is the greatest of writers. But I had been reading a steady diet of 20th c exposition, and in contrast, Lo, here was a paragraph which wended this way and that for line upon line until somewhere towards the end the language finally got to where the thought might be beginning. Not a "topic sentence" in sight. In short, ladies and gentlemen -- the Victorians.skholiasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05410057905377189336noreply@blogger.com