Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Periphrastic, pleonastic or redundant

In the various arts, and above all in writing, the shortest distance between two points, even if close to each other, has never been and never will be, what is known as a straight line, never, never, to put it strongly and emphatically in response to any doubts, to silence them once and for all. (Jose Saramago - The Stone Raft)

Phew, and I thought it was just me!

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