Lawrence Hall, HSG
Search Them Out and Destroy Them
Do you truly and honestly
want your writing
Finally to be actually and
really stronger?
Then go search out your
adverbs. Kill them all.
Do you want your writing
to be stronger?
The former address, "reactionary drivel," was a P. G. Wodehouse gag that few ever understood to be a mildly self-deprecating joke. Drivel, perhaps, but not reactionary. Neither the Red Caps nor the Reds ever got it.
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