Tyndale’s prose is not so much clear as memorable, and memorability is worth more in a sentence even than clarity. Or rather it is the best kind of clarity. The plain English style is just words worked into memorable forms that we define, post hoc, as clear, because they stay in our heads long enough to be understood. The lesson of all this is plain. If you have something weird or astonishing or heterodox to say—if you want to stretch the confines of the credible and be true to the world in all its beautiful, brain-melting absurdity, which you should want to do—then say it with the plainest
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