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Style is the dress of thoughts. -- Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773) -- Letter, Nov. 24, 1749
Style may not be the answer, but at least it's a workable alternative.
Styles: "Bridge, this is the captain. How can you have a yellow alert in Spacedock?
-- "STIII:TSFS", Stardate 8210.3...
Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the sake of technique.
-- Edward Abbey...
Styrofoam is shipped in ground-up environmentalists.
Subaru: Send Undercover Boat And Radioactive Uranium
Subduction leads to orogeny.
Subject and verb always has to agree. -- Writing Rule 20
Subject: longest turnaround time in the world Rumor has it that when they closed down the 7094 at MIT in 1973, they found a low-priority job that had been submitted in 1967 and had not yet been run.
Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money.
-- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book ii, Chap. xvi...

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