SC - Medieval writing styles

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/4/99 12:19:48 PM Eastern Standard Time,
memorman at oldcolo.com writes:

<<  I was reading CHiquart last night looking
 for a quote and realized what a verbose and downright pompous fellow he
 was!  I can well believe from his writing that he never read a book at
 all!
 
 Elaina >>

A quick glance at a few of my books dating from the Victorian era back,
clearly shows that verbose and pompous writing was , in fact, the sign of a
good writer. IMO, Chiquart clearly shows hinself to be a man of learning in
his writings as opposed to those who set down works like Ancient cookery and
FoC on parchement. It is not until; we get into this century that simplistic
writing styles break any ground and in recent yeras writers have become so
simplistic and inane that there are few, if any, works worth reading at all.

Ras
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