“Professor Paulson said alliteration was dangerous if you don’t know how to use it.” “Seems to me you could say that about anything. A frying pan or a car jack.” Wynn thought about it. “Paulson said there was a principle in aesthetics: the more you prettify something, the more you risk undermining its value. Its essential value.” “I don’t know what that means.” Jack tossed a pebble over the edge of the bluff. “Sounds like something a professor likes to say. I guess he means like plants that put all their energy into brilliant flowers and not the roots.” “I guess.” “So what if the value is
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