NORMAL HUMAN BEING: You can only watch a movie ironically so many times before you’re watching it earnestly. COPY EDITOR: You can watch a movie ironically only so many times before you’re watching it earnestly. Does the latter perhaps sound a bit stilted? Perhaps it does, but to be perfectly honest, there’s a certain tautness in slightly stilted prose that I find almost viscerally thrilling.
That last sentence. It is so why I love reading.
