uncluttered, I said. Why such dislike of adjectives? I oppose anything judgmental, I said, and adjectives are opinionated words. Happy, sad. Long, short. Live, dead. Young, old. Even the simplest adjective claims such entitlement to judge. Not to mention they come with those abusive forms of the comparative and the superlative. I beg to differ, he said. A noun is a wall, an adjective is a window. I laughed. What’s so funny? There is no adjective in your astute and definitive statement, I said. Fine. How about this: A noun is a self-defeating wall, an adjective is a tenacious window.
