THE STYLISTS

beating method in particular routine especially habit you would think would be substance ... more than the vagaries of style and wit you would think should be essence ... nonetheless there is a type of writer I confess some intimacy with the character likely to mistake the wrapping and the package and the thrill of opening them for the gift inside ... the book and the ease of its delivery and the colors on the cover for the argument or story inside ... to allow this confusion to set into a routine is to miss the message and soon enough set the book aside as having lost its interest ... this much is fairly obvious more subtle as in simply taking more time is to do the same to the truth of the argument or story once you've set the package and the book off to the side ... to set the truth up knowingly not admittedly as it were another idea or opinion taking its place with the others gone before on the same long shelf ... as if there were no book or thought word person or idea to stand out before all those others ... the really good ones with all that style and grace ... one word one book one idea one person to shut up all the others in the library of style