Plus ca change etc.

 NY Times book review article begins "We like to think that modern fiction, particularly American fiction, is free from the artificial stylistic pretensions of the past." Who actually thought that? Not someone who takes the trouble to tackle every novel written in 2011; and this search went farther:


www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/books/review/the-mechanic-muse-the-jargon-of-the-novel-computed.html