Style: There Is Something In Too Much Verbal Felicity (as In Joyce Or
Nabokov Or Borges) That Can Betray The Writer Into Technique For The
Sake Of Technique.
Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or
Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the
sake of technique.
-- Edward Abbey
wank /wangk/ n.,v.,adj.
[Columbia University: prob. by
mutation from Commonwealth slang v. `wank', to masturbate] Used
much as hack is elsewhere, as a noun denoting a clever
technique or person or the result of such cleverness....