13/01/2013

Model Learning: The Negative Version

It is also important that cheaper types of reading, if hitherto followed, be dropped. Popular magazines inculcate a careless and deplorable style which is hard to unlearn, and which impedes the acquisition of a purer style.

H.P. Lovecraft, Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 (quoted here)

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